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Quote from: Lori Bolinger on October 05, 2018, 12:48:46 pm

The early church understood that with One God came One Spirit, thus One understanding.  So the question posed today is how many right interpretations are there to scripture.

Before we start let me clarify one thing, scripture also talks about what we call disputable matters which are the things not clear which is a different matter.

Interpretations of any text, doctrine, theory, concept or idea can vary. Religious writings are subject to both literal and figurative interpretation and may further differ according to the context in which they are being 'related'. At best, you may consider all logical, tenable, probable and possible 'interpretations' of a given text and translate such in the present time with all the knowledge, wisdom and discernment available, at any given moment. - there are teachings, concepts or practices in scripture that are outdated, obsolete today...or is translated to mean something different in modern times, so a belief such as 'biblical inerrancy' is shaky, since it is the spirit of truth that is guiding us into all truth, and that includes progressive revelation, new dispensations of light, new unfoldings of truth consonant with the time one lives in.

Light itself produces numberless reflections and appearances of colour, just like a diamond has many facets, yet it is made of the same universal light-substance, expressing in various shades, tones and forms. One can apply the basic 'metaphysics' here and figure out the rest



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