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To: James Calladine who wrote (609)	11/26/2001 9:38:43 PM
From: IN_GOD_I_TRUST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

James, I see your point! But this is the heart of the matter... The characteristics of God I am talking about is not what he looks like or physical characteristics of God. It is his teachings, his word! And his word, if you believe that God's word is the bible, for instance, is in translatable languages. One must find out the true interpretation of the language it is written, which is very possible to truly interpret it. And one more thing, everything must be read in it to formulate the right interpretation of it. Let me illustrate: If we use your example of the word dog, you are right! Or we limit what we study around the word dog, you will be in the same bind as you described. The word dog by itself conjures up many different thoughts for different people. But if you put dog in a sentence and surround it by other sentences, and then paragraphs, and chapters, etc.. it is easily obtainable what dog means. For instance, The dog ate dinner. This can be left open to many interpretations, right? The type of dog, what he ate, how he ate it, etc...? Now, lets do it again, Mary was a cute little girl who had a kind, little dog. He was as cute as a dog could be. One evening when Mary got home, the dog was very hungry. He barked and barked until Mary left food in the dogs bowl for the dog to eat. The dog ate dinner. He was very full! After dinner, the dog went to Mary, wagging its tail, and licked Mary all over for feeding him his favorite type of dog food. Is this open for as much interpretation as the first sentence, "The dog ate dinner"? One must read in context to the rest of the surrounding material, what is the meaning of the text, and in this case the word dog. If you read things like "The dog ate dinner" and nothing around it, that's how you get in trouble. But you must read everything in context, and it must make sense with whats surrounding it. I think the interpretation issues you address are overstated and oversimplified! If you read things in context, and all the material surrounding it, your issue is not as big as you make it. If you don't, that's what causes problems and that's what gets you in trouble! And I think religions definitely have a habit of taking things out of context, which gets them in trouble! God Bless, IGIT PS - You really should start the Ali Da thread if you want to post his teachings! On the Understanding Islam thread I am not sure if everyone wants to understand Ali Da, IMHO!