A Different View

The bible is a very important book with many different meanings. It is very important to learn how you interpret the bible. The churches amazing power is that it has the right to interpret the bible however it wishes. It is what holds the power of interpretation and with its great power people become corrupt. God is not only the good being we might imagine him to be but he is a being that knows how to punish. He knows that sometimes the only way to make people understand is by punishing them “This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; every man child among you shall be circumcised (chapter 17).” This is a fact that we all must learn to accept. A dog can only be educated if when he does something wrong he is punished and when he does something well he is rewarded. This is also something that we must learn from god, he knows how to listen and forgive. He will listen to your point of view and make decisions once he has heard both parts of the story And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake (Chapter 18)”. Those are all examples of interpretations of the bible. But one thing that I have learned is that there is no right or wrong interpretations. That is why I don’t fully agree with the church. I don’t believe that if somebody interprets the bible in a different way it is wrong. This is what forms our society, different points of view and those differences are what make our world interesting.