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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9812281.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.} ========================================================== %AUTHORITY TEXT SCRIPTURE CONFESSION LAW COMMAND+981228 %TRUTHFUL INTERPRET DISCERNMENT RELIABLE UNDERSTAND 981228 Religious leaders face a dilemma when it comes to dealing with important texts: 1. Humans discern meanings in texts in ways which depend upon their own previous experiences, use of language, fears, hopes, expectations, aspirations, beliefs, prejudices, confusions, and convictions. 2. Attempts to assign "authoritative meanings" to texts as parts of programs of discipline and control invite conflicts among contending authorities who are interested in using the texts to their own advantage --- in keeping with their own differing understandings of the texts. 3. Simple people who are targets of controllers are usually not stupid people. They are likely to see through the devices and desires of controllers more completely than controllers allow themselves to recognize. 4. The truly profound insights and modes of understanding cannot be contained and controlled by texts; only simple-minded notions, insights and commands can be contained and controlled by texts. 5. Simple people are able to recognize that over- simplified texts cannot possibly deal with matters of ultimate concern --- and discern that controllers are preoccupied with their own devices and desires; rather than with discerning what is essential to personal and communal integrity and integration. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================