Thanks for sharing, Ishmael. Honest and even-handed. Very glad you’ve come to a place where you no longer fear ‘spiritual failure.’

I also thought the attention to differences in language was interesting. I think it should give any Bible-interpreter pause to consider that the words they read might have been translated differently by someone else—words which can carry very different connotations. How can one ever be sure that they’re reading it ‘right’?