In his word God tells us how he expects us to think and act via men like Moses, Paul, Peter, Mathew, John, etc. This is how we can know what truth is. As shown in 1 Tim 1 we are supposed to “teach no other doctrine”. I take this to mean that we are not to modify the intended meaning of the Scripture. There may be cases where we are teaching about a subject and use Scripture to support our teaching, but we should not use our teaching to modify the meaning.
When we wish to describe a topic we have many tools to use, and Scripture is one of them. It is perfectly allowable to use Scripture this way. Scripture is a tool of truth; we use it to give a foundation to a truth we want to communicate. But we need to use the proper tool for the proper job. We do not use a chisel to turn a screw tighter, and we do not use a screw driver to trim a piece of wood. We do not use truth to tell a lie.
Men are good at “weasel wording”, they can turn aside from the original intended meaning toward something different. They start along the proper path and start walking along the edge of that path. Sometimes they will take a little side path that parallels the original and hop back into the true path. Perhaps they continue staying on the parallel path. Then the path that was parallel may slowly start to veer, ever so slightly, to the left or right. Perhaps the path they are following bends further astray until one day it is not going to the same destination at all.
Watch your compass to make sure you are taking the true path.
