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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">Torrey in </span><em>How To Study The Bible</em><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"> incredibly encour</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">ages you to obey what you see in the Bible immediately with</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;">out any need to resolve difficulties you have not resolved.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"><span>While this advice sounds wholesome, it is wrong when given as advice on how to </span><span>study</span><span> the Bible. Any tour of the Internet chat rooms or e-mail banter and community forums demonstrates how reckless is Torrey’s direction.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 12pt;"><span> For example, let’s apply Torrey’s principle that whatever good you see in a Bible character, you must immediately imitate it and whatever error you see in a Bible character you must do the contrary. Jesus encountered a rich young man, and the man said he had kept all the Command</span><span></span><span>ments. Jesus told him he had to do one more thing. He had to give all his money away to the poor. Now there is nothing wrong in giving your money away to the poor. At the same time, however, if you follow Torrey’s advice, you must quickly do what the rich man failed to do. You must immedi</span><span>ately impoverish yourself. (This is what Tolstoy did in reliance on reading this passage.)</span></span></p>
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