The other night, I was flipping around the channels late, late at night and came upon one of those televangelist "paid programming" shows. This televangelist, Paula White, said: "Are you feeling weighted down in life? You have too many other people’s burdens, weights, on your back. Remember Galatians says, bear your own burdens." While she spoke, a two sentence quotation was flashed on the screen, citing Galatians, but too quickly to be read carefully.
This may have caught my attention because this concept sounded more New Age, modern self-help, than biblical. So on a whim, I backed up the DVR to read the supporting quotation. It actually read:
"Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Galatians 6:2-3"
Now, I’m no biblical scholar, and I’m not sure what that second sentence is getting at, but I’m pretty sure the first sentence is saying the exact opposite of what she said.