Understanding God

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When I was a kid we would play a game in class where the teacher would line up the all of the students shoulder to shoulder. She would then whisper something into the first student’s ear and tell him or her to pass it down the line. By the time it reached the other end the phrase wouldn’t resemble the original statement at all. To me this is how God is perceived in society. Everyone has their own point of view based on their experience. Just like the experiment, the students would use their own experience and vocabulary to interpret what the previous student was trying to say.
Modern Christianity has done this since the early Roman Catholic Church. Originally, the faith was organized so that it would fit everyone within the empire. However, the Greek Orthodox would eventually break of because of how they interpreted the Bible differently. The most important break in tradition and interpretation was during the Reformation. At this point Christianity took on a whole new appearance. Even within the Protestant faith there are so many off chutes that some time it can be d...

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