The Lone Ranger Was Not Alone

I received an email and the writer asked, “I spend much time at your site and enjoy it a great deal. Thank you for the blessing of the free resources. I was wondering if there is a scripture specific to no man being an island and seeking to live independent of the Body of Christ?”

The phrase “no man is an island unto himself” is actually an idiom and not found in the Bible. The precise quotation is, “No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main. – John Donne – Meditation XVII.

However, the meaning behind the quotation is central to God’s plan for man as evidenced from the Genesis account and carried throughout the whole of the Bible; it is called restoration, first to God, and secondly, with each other.