Why Christians Shouldn’t Say, “The Bible Says So…”

Critiquing the “go-to” phrase of lazy believers

Dan Foster
Backyard Church
Published in
7 min readNov 29, 2023

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“The Bible says so.”

It is a phrase often used by lazy Christians, usually at the end of some argument over ethics or theology, most often when the argument is already lost. In one final desperate play, they bring out their “Bible-says-so” trump card as if the phrase itself…

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Dan Foster
Backyard Church

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