Heresy

[psyham]

"But to want to affirm that... is a very dangerous thing, not only by irritating all the philosophers and scholastic theologians, but also by injuring our holy faith and rendering the Holy Scriptures false. For Your Reverence has demonstrated many ways of explaining Holy Scripture, but you have not applied them in particular, and without a doubt

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[redundantcliche]

If there's one important thing that law school has taught me, it's that even the most explicit statement can still have ambiguities. Of course, the goal is always to try and find the best meaning from among those ambiguities, but our methods of finding the best meaning can change over time and the best meaning isn't always the correct meaning. The poetic and rhetorical traditions of 2000 years ago are hardly the same as those of today, and words are used differently, and things get lost in translation all the time