Sunday, July 7, 2013

Interpreting Bible and Constitution.

I found an article titled "Maybe We Should Stop Letting Crazy People Interpret the Bible and the Constitution". The article is more about people who pick and choose what they want out of both documents to justify their actions.  I love to read the story of the Nativity from the King James version of the Bible, it's beautifully written, even though it doesn't make a lot of historical and logical sense, but that's where faith comes in I guess. However, the King James version of the Bible is not the word of God, it is an interpretation and translation made for a King in England many centuries after the Birth of Christ. If you want to know the true word of God in the original form, you'll need to learn Greek, Latin and probably some other ancient languages to go to the original forms of the Bible, all else has been men's interpretations and inexact translations of those words, a reflection of the times and prejudices that the writer was living. The Constitution was written over 2 centuries ago, the world was a very different place, things have occurred that were not even dreamed of then, there has been changes in technology that could not have been imagined. So if you want to use the Bible and the Constitution, how about using all of them, not just a few words.

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