None Of Your Business

Daniel, my church's seminarian, said to us last week that interpreting the bible is a delicate matter. Readers of the bible should not quote isolated verses at liberty to buttress their view points, to prove or disprove one thing or another. In such cases, the verses of the bible could be quoted out of context. It is best to leave it to the church as the final authority on the contextual meaning of the bible texts. The church, in this case, refers to the Vatican, and not the priest at any church.

This again illustrates how tricky it is to use reason to support your belief. If the bible could quite easily be quoted out of context, then surely a large proportion of the believers could not have been able to understand their faith properly, through reason and understanding alone.

The priest at our church said during the Pantecost mass recently that the church has tried for 2,000 years to understand and explain, without success, the concept of the Holy Trinity, where God, the Son and the Holy Spirit is one and three. The Holy Trinity, although acknowledged by the church, remains a mystery.

This is therefore my point. If reason can not be used, sometimes, to explain your faith, why continue to use reason? And, why do you wonder, when at other times your reasons appear to be more valid, that others still reject your faith?

Viewing from outside the faith, reasons must be valid for all cases, not on a piecemeal basis.

However, if it is faith that you are pursuing, and not just a reasoned belief, then no one can have a hold on you. You, or I, can believe whatever that we like.

It is none of your business what I believe.