How Shepherd's Chapel Abuses Strong's Concordance: Examples of Inconsistent Exegesis

As someone who spent over two decades immersed in Shepherd's Chapel teachings before embracing biblical doctrine, I've seen firsthand how tools like Strong's Exhaustive Concordance can be misused to support unorthodox beliefs. Strong's is a helpful resource—a concordance that lists every word in the King James Bible and assigns numbers linking to basic Hebrew and Greek definitions. However, it is not an advanced lexicon or dictionary like those used by serious Bible scholars (e.g., BDAG for Greek or HALOT for Hebrew). Its brevity can lead to oversimplification, and when divorced from context, grammar, historical background, and sound interpretive principles, it becomes a tool for eisegesis—reading preconceived ideas into the text rather than drawing meaning out of it (exegesis).