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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9501212.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %CONTINUING REVELATION SCRIPTURES PROPHETS TRUTH+950121 %INCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE INSIGHTS PERCEPTIONS COMPLETE 950121 Because our environment is constantly changing and because we are limited in what we can know and understand we cannot rely upon our understandings of the scriptures of one former era as being adequate and complete guides for our era. As our environment and our understanding of our relationship to our cosmic environment changes---it is inevitable that our understanding of the scriptures most relied upon in former eras will also change. They cannot mean the same to us as they ment to our ancestors; they cannot be true to us, in the same way in which they were true to our ancestors. It does no one any good to pretend that our environment is not changing, or that our understanding of our cosmic environment is not changing. It does no one any good to pretend that our understandings of ancient scriptures are not changing due to our understanding of our changing environment. It does no one any good to pretend that ancient scriptures are true always and eternally in unchanging ways. It does no one any good to pretend that the Creative God is a God of stagnation and eternal sameness; opposing change and undermining creative change and growth. To be alive is to respond creatively to changes in our cosmic environment, and to respond creatively to changes in our understandings of our cosmic environment. We disintegrate and die when we pretend that the understanding of any group of people at one moment in history is the ultimate understanding, true in unchanging ways, and worthy of worship. Such understandings are in part created by humans and so are not worthy of worship--- to worship them is idolatrous. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================