Birthday Party Talks

Today we attended a 7-year-olds birthday party my daughter Zoë was invited to. The food, decorations and cake were fantastic. Before the evening could come to a close my wife brought up that she had been attending mass with me quite a bit. Blam! That was it. I had been trying to avoid the topic of my entering the Catholic communion because I know the family we were visiting has divided views about Catholicism, but my wife opened up the box. I think we talked for the next three hours about Christianity, the Bible, Catholicism/Protestantism. At one point one person in the discussion, not the host family, began to share an unorthodox interpretation of the identity of Christ, that he was not God while on earth. I told the group that if each man must interpret the Bible as he sees fit then his view is valid. I for one no longer have the option to choose my own interpretation, and I am thankful for the Catholic Bishops who preserve the original interpretation of Scripture and the traditions handed down to us from the twelve apostles so that we are not at the mercy of voting for interpretations or falling sway to simply believe the best debater in the room.