Punctuation

An English professor wrote these words on the board:

"Woman without her man is nothing"

She then asked her students to provide proper punctuation.

The males in the class wrote:

"Woman, without her man, is nothing."

The females in the class wrote:

"Woman! Without her, man is nothing."

Punctuation makes a difference.

Have you seen this statement regard divine punctuation?

"Never place a period where God has placed a comma."

Then there is the competing statement:

"Never place a comma where God has placed a period."

There are lots of issues regarding the proper reading and understanding of Scripture. Jesus took to task the religious leaders of his day for misreading Scripture.

I don’t think it was about proper punctuation.

The issue was their failure to see the heart of God, to see Jesus, in them. Do I have the same problem?

Seems to me the proper way to punctuate Scripture is with Jesus. When we lose his heart and his loving way, then we’ve lost the meaning of Scripture, no matter how true the words are.