Christianity offers room for interpretation
RAY CRYER Rusk

A beautiful and remarkable thing about Christianity is that there is room enough, and salvation for, the bright and the thick, the imaginative and the concrete, the ill educated and the well educated, those who have come to understand the Bible differently with multiple readings, and those who only understand, as the years go by, in exactly the same way they understood it at first reading.

Danger, misjudgments, rancor and stagnation occur when the bright insist that the thick take a quantum leap toward a deeper understanding that may threaten fragile faith, or when the thick insist that progress in understanding words and concepts is faithless heresy.

If anyone gleamed from my previous letter that I do not believe in God or the Bible, they have missed the barn door by at least eight yards.

But win or lose, I must interpret the Bible for myself and I suggest others do the same. I've not met the preacher yet who can save me. That role is Christ's.