Acts Lesson 2/Day 5

Acts Lesson 2/Day 5

Acts 1:12-26

...Casting Lots...

Prescriptive -vs- Descriptive

If it’s in the Bible, we should do it, right? The disciples cast lots (rolled dice or flipped a coin perhaps) to decide between two disciples. They even prayed for God’s help. So, that means we should pray and cast lots when we have a big decision to make too, right?

 

Not necessarily. Just because the Bible describes something happening, doesn’t mean it is prescribing for us to do the same. This is what we call the difference between “prescriptive and descriptive” passages in the Bible. Nowhere in the Bible are we instructed to cast lots. We are told to pray, seek God, and have patience. The lot casting account in Acts is an example of descriptive writing which simply tells us what happened and should not be misunderstood as prescriptive – a passage telling or prescribing for us to do the same.

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