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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9612261.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.} ========================================================== %COMMANDMENTS PROHIBITIONS PRESCRIPTIONS UNDERSTAND+961226 %CULTURAL CONTEXT LITERAL UNDERSTAND FUNDAMENTALS 961226 People who come from different cultures and/or otherwise live their lives within contrasting paradigms are likely to have difficulties agreeing with each other regarding literal interpretations of scriptures--- especially as regards the implications of human failures to abide by what the scriptures presumably say. The meanings and implications which are found in texts often depend critically upon the cultural background and/or paradigm which serves as the background for understanding a text. People who believe that they are "correctly" interpreting a text literally, often disagree with each other in major ways---because they have made different unrecognized and/or unarticulated assumptions under the guidance of their differing home cultures/paradigms. Only people who share a homogeneous cultural background and/or home paradigm can hope to agree fully with each other about the "correct" literal interpretation of all scriptural texts---especially as regards the implications of human failures to honor and abide by what the scriptures presumably say. This means that literalist cannot honestly hope to promote personal and communal integrity on an international scale---by encouraging other people world-wide to adopt their own provincial interpretation of their scriptures. They are bound to encounter other people in the world who cannot with personal and communal integrity agree about literal interpretations. Thus literalism does not merit respect as a basis for promoting personal and communal integrity world wide in all of God's world. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================