Avoiding Proof-Texting
When believers in the Lord Jesus hear teachings and doctrines unfamiliar to them, they demand, properly, “Show me in the Bible!” Yet a biblical answer to this mandate will not always come by citing chapter and verse. There are some doctrines (such as the doctrine of the Trinity) that are dear to Christians, but that cannot be proved by any single passage of Scripture. Such doctrines must be inferred and pieced together from several passages of Scripture.
Ryan McGraw, By Good and Necessary Consequence (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2012), 0