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%AVOIDING SIMPLISTIC TRAGIC TRAPS READING GOD TEXTS 070321
   %BRINGING COMPLEMENTARY DIFFERENT NEEDS CONTEXTS 070321
%ASSUMPTIONS ATTITUDES BELIEFS DOCTRINES RITUALS ID 070321
%ABSOLUTE TRUTH FUNDAMENTALISTS DOMINATION CONTROLS 070321
%ORIGINAL FALLING ALIENATION EXCOMMUNICATION SINNER 070321
  %ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUS UNILATERAL INVULNERABLE 070321

    Beware  of  falling into the deadly trap  of  thinking
arrogantly  that the truth(s)  which you discern upon your
reading  of  any  text ---  is the only  TRUTH  which  may
properly be discerned upon any reading of the text.

    Different    people   bring   different:    attitudes,
assumptions,  beliefs, fears, anxieties, etc. ---  to each
of their different readings of any one text.

    Each  person's  discernments are colored  by  whatever
they  bring  to each reading of each  text;   within  each
different context of each such reading --- at the time and
place of each such reading.

    For each person each text may point to a wide  variety
of mutually complementary truths;  rather than to only one
truth --- for all persons on all occasions.

    Each reader may have needs upon each of their readings
of  some  one text;  which are different needs  than  what
others have when  they read the same  text.   Discernments
are  reflexive realities which enfolds both the  text  and
the  readers  within their particular  times,   places and
reflexive contexts.   To ignore these facts of life --- is
to  lay the foundations  for falling into a  tragic  trap!
Simplistic  Domineering-People  are prone to ignore  these
facts of life ---   and  thereby  they lay foundations for
falling  into  tragic  traps ---  of their own making  ---
which  may  entrap not only them ---  but others  who  are
vulnerable with them!

    Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom.

                         (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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