[TruthTalk] John 16:13 fg. - Perhaps it's focus is WHO not so much WHAT

[Lance Muir]

As Jimmy Durante used to say:"Everybody wants to get into the act." And, so we should but, with more epistemological humility.   "Anyone who is an interpreter of any text interprets that text from some sort of ideational perspective.Everybody stands somewhere. There's no one who can stand in a neutral objective point in interpreting texts. To pretend so is simply a pernicious fiction." Richard B. Hayes - Public Lecture - New Zealand - 2004)   We  read the text of Scripture differently and diversely. We read the texts of one another similarly. Other that saying:: 'you are of your father, the devil', how are we to account for and insofar as is possible, rectify this?   Among those gifted and discerning participants dwelling hereon, might some suggest a way forward other that requesting that one of the now thoroughly polarized camps simply 'take a walk' leaving the other to live in harmony and agreement?