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    %INTERPRET SCRIPTURE LAW MORAL CODE RULES GUIDE 930804

     How  we  interpret scriptures,  laws,   moral  codes,
rules,  guidelines and any other text depends greatly upon
what is in our hearts, what assumptions we have made, what
attitudes we  have, and many other considerations.     The
apprehended meanings of texts depend  upon  the people who
are interpreting the texts.  The meanings of texts are not
objective,   independent  of the interpreters.    This  is
especially  the  case  because the meanings of  the  texts
reflect upon the past, present and future behaviors of the
people who are  interpreting  the text;  the  meaning  are
often reflexive meanings, not objective in character.

     Human conflicts  over texts are often conflicts which
are rooted in the unspoken attitudes, ideals and values of
the interpreters of the texts.   So long as the  conflicts
are made to seem to be  conflicts having  to  do with some
presumed objective conflict between those people who would
be   faithful  to  the  text  and  those  people  who  are
presumably not seeking to be faithful to the text, so long
will  the light of  honest dialogue  about people's varied
interpretations of the text be absent  from  the community
of   conflict.    So  long  will  the  conflict   continue
unresolved; and so the coercion,  manipulation and violent
expressions of the conflict will continue unabated.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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