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19 september 2019
In religious debates, there always exist people on the one hand who want to stay close to the source texts, be it the Quran, the Thora or the Bible, and others, who believe these sacred texts require a “smart” reading. According to these people the sacred texts were written in a very specific context and when using them today as guidance for the Faith, readers should only focus on the part which is relevant for the core of the religion.
Although I have a great deal of sympathy for what I will call “the interpreters” or “modernists”, the truth is that I see an important epistemological problem for them. Do these modernists have a procedure available to distill the everlasting truth from a religious text or do they take what they like and throw away what they do not like ? Do they have an algorithm or a direct connection with God that gives them the appropriate inspiration to make the distinction between the Truth and a simple human-made story ?