Ah yes, the proof-text…

Years ago Donald McCullough spoke about trivializing God and referred to this tendency as treating God as the “God of My Cause.” We decide what we want to believe and then dig around in the Bible to dredge up support so we can “take a stand on biblical authority.” Too often the authority of the Bible is not well represented by extracting prooftexts, yet this is one of the major ways that Christians attempt to make the Torah relevant and to resolve controversial issues.—Walton and Walton, The Lost World of the Torah, 183