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    %PRETENSE INFALLIBLE AUTHORITY RECEIVE PERCEIVE+940709
 %TRUTH HONESTY INTEGRITY AUTHENTIC RESPONSIVE LOVE 940709

     The pretense of a presumably infallible authority  is
futile---for  the author of truth and  integrity  is  Love
which  is  free  of pretense,   tension,   contention  and
coercion.

     Truth  is discerned within the context of an open and
honest relationship which is prompted by Love, not held in
a linear string of words or other symbols which may or may
not be infallible.

     A  presumably infallible  statement formulated  in  a
linear  string of words or other symbols (by an infallible
authority)  cannot  be infallible unless it  is infallibly
received by an infallible recipient.    This is still  the
case  if  there  is  an  infallible  interpreter  of   the
presumably  infallible statement;  for the presumption  of
infallibility  is  futile in the absence of  a  infallible
recipient  of  the infallible interpretation.   Thus,  the
conception  of infallibility is futile and not a  creation
of God.

     It  is  more  helpful  to  attend  to  the  kinds  of
relationships   and   contexts  which   nurture   honesty,
openness,    responsiveness,   responsibility,    personal
integrity and communal  integrity --- in communities where
people seek, give, and accept true security enjoyed as the
freedom  to  be  safely vulnerable.    The  conception  of
infallibility  is a preoccupation of insecure  people  who
are  seeking  invulnerability --- not the fruit of love as
the author of integrative  relationships.

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