Is the author really being sacrilegious (as he states) or just offering a differing opinion?
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Is the author really being sacrilegious (as he states) or just offering a differing opinion?
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I agree with you! Who is to say what is the correct way to read something, unless you're purposefully manipulating something for your own gain, then allowing yourself to read something differently and gain a new perspective is perfectly okay!Kirsi_78 wrote: ↑02 Dec 2020, 05:43 I don't think the author is sacrilegious. Maybe bold enough to challenge and test the common beliefs, but I strongly believe that God doesn't have a problem with that and we shouldn't either. We can never experience deeper understading if we don't allow ourselves to think outside of the box. Whether the result of this type of thinking is correct or not, is another question.
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I completely agree!! It is just another perspective, it's not wrong in any way. Personally I think those who say that it is sacrilegious to have your own opinion in religion, are those who are too scared of change and losing power and money that they have over the many many people that realise that there is more to life than just the Church's own monopoly of the truth!Bertha Jackson wrote: ↑01 Dec 2020, 18:42 I don't think he was being sacrilegious at all. Unless you want to consider that the many different translations of the Bible have been so. To me, this is another translation of the Bible.
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I agree, I think he is more questioning the teachings the leaders if the Church give, especially when it comes to the manipulations of the Bible, I think he is just offering another perspective of the scriptures that the Church usually tries to supress because it doesn't fit their own agenda.
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I think the author is just offering a different opinion. God gives every person something different when they are genuinely seeking answers from Him as they read and study His word. By that I mean He gives it to you in a way YOU can understand, so I believe the author is expressing what they feel was God's answer to them.Maddie Atkinson wrote: ↑01 Dec 2020, 10:56 I know that by definition, sacrilege is disrespecting something religious or sacred, however, I don't think that the author is being sacrilegious. The author is simply offering a different opinion to the Church's teachings. I know that sounds like blasphemy or sacrilege, however I don't think they are challenging the Church's teachings, but rather having a different interpretation of the Bible's teachings, which are there to help oneself and therefore will be interpreted differently by everyone who reads it, even those in authority in the Church, as no one is perfect and we are all subject to personal bias when it comes to beliefs no matter what or who you are. What do y'all think?
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I agree. There is a Bible verse that goes "Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it" (Jeremiah 6:16). The Bible itself is telling us that it's ok to ask questions, analyze, and follow the "good way" once we have figured it out based on our analysis of the answers we've received. So, if the author had questions and wanted to analyze and test the beliefs he grew up with, then he was doing the right thing according to the Bible - he was seeing two "crossroads" (science vs. religion) and began to "look."Kirsi_78 wrote: ↑02 Dec 2020, 05:43 I don't think the author is sacrilegious. Maybe bold enough to challenge and test the common beliefs, but I strongly believe that God doesn't have a problem with that and we shouldn't either. We can never experience deeper understading if we don't allow ourselves to think outside of the box. Whether the result of this type of thinking is correct or not, is another question.
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I don't think that it's precisely "a" proper interpretation that the author is giving. It's "her" interpretation. Saying that it's "a proper interpretation" makes it sound more factual than it actually is, given that it is, after all, only one person's opinion. There are dozens of "interpretations" of the Bible that various people have given, all different from each other in some way. None is more "appropriate" than the other. Even those given by religious scholars are merely the opinions of each individual author.
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