Week 9 - Monday

After studying today Differance, Difference and anti-essentialism I now more than ever believe that Christian traditions need to give other Christian traditions a break on how they interpret scripture. Derrida's point that we cannot describe things as they actually are is well taken here. Human language inherently limits what one can say. How can we look at the Bible as being something not touched by the inconsistencies and limitations of human language? On the upside, if we are willing to recognize the limitations of human language then we may in fact encourage unity in the Body of Christ among its many different denoms. The irony between dividing over the Bible when the Bible was made to unite us is conclusive to our misunderstanding of our own languages. I hope the rest of the Church can more openly accept this.