Any religious believer can develop a standard of inquiry and evaluation that can assist him or her in guarding self against religious authorities laying on them a false hermeneutics or flawed interpretation of religious texts. For instance, in the three monotheistic religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, each tradition establishes assertively that their respective religious scriptures or texts are the de jure holy book because God Himself was responsible for providing it to their specific religious group. In the case of the Jews, the holy book called the Torah is asserted to be the only de jure holy book that God sanctions as God’s Own Words. Likewise, Christians assert that the Bible is the only de jure holy book that
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In all cases of these monotheistic religious traditions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the inquiry effort by any given believer into authorship is automatically shut down and forbidden because of this outrageous claim that God Himself is the principal author. This means the researcher who wants to explore the issue of authorship is committing a blasphemy for doubting that God is the author! It is the most fundamental form of abuse by religious authorities in all three of these monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Any religious believer who wants to double check the authenticity and genuineness of authorship is forbidden to do such a search because it is considered a violation of religious duty in each faith. These holy books must be accepted at face value and upheld as God’s official sanctioned words and instructions that are not human in nature or quality but are from God Himself! It is so important to understand how religious authorities can become so abusive and exploitative when religious believers are not able to question the authorship or authenticity of the very scriptures and texts that are being used to lay down rules, standards, and laws for religious followers to unconditionally obey without doubts, questions, or
In all cases of these monotheistic religious traditions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the inquiry effort by any given believer into authorship is automatically shut down and forbidden because of this outrageous claim that God Himself is the principal author. This means the researcher who wants to explore the issue of authorship is committing a blasphemy for doubting that God is the author! It is the most fundamental form of abuse by religious authorities in all three of these monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Any religious believer who wants to double check the authenticity and genuineness of authorship is forbidden to do such a search because it is considered a violation of religious duty in each faith. These holy books must be accepted at face value and upheld as God’s official sanctioned words and instructions that are not human in nature or quality but are from God Himself! It is so important to understand how religious authorities can become so abusive and exploitative when religious believers are not able to question the authorship or authenticity of the very scriptures and texts that are being used to lay down rules, standards, and laws for religious followers to unconditionally obey without doubts, questions, or