Thoughts and stories about why I became Catholic after being raised Protestant (Baptist/Pentecostal/Nondenominational), and also reflections on the present journey of raising my family in this new context. Without a vanishing point, your life will be out of perspective. Deciding to follow Jesus gave me a horizon; I knew up from down, right from wrong. Becoming Catholic I found my vanishing point and my life could be seen in perspective.
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Bible Relativism
As a Bible teacher, I would attack relativism by stating that one cannot simply say "what is truth for you may not be truth for me". I taught that the Bible is our authority for truth about God. But when it came down to what the Bible taught us, I would myself teach relativism by saying that each person must decide for themselves what the Bible means to them. And if we came to different conclusions on topics, we just had to agree to disagree because who is to say what is the right interpretations. That is the Protestant position, a sort of Bible relativism that has broken into thousands of denominations each claiming to interpret the Bible in a way that is true for them. I don't have to do that anymore, I found my vanishing point.
Labels:
apologetics,
Relativism
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