The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On … - Zygmunt Bauman

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All athletes need three things: commitment, discipline and hard work. Without that it's hard to keep running.

Zygmunt Bauman

The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On the contrary, it invites and prods us to make responsible choices, to take responsibility for the choices that we have made. . . It was always like that, and our holy scripture grows over the centuries, gets thicker and thicker, with more texts around, which need
have to be looked into, referred to, considered.

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