So much to be said on this subject ...and so many directions of lessons to be learned, yet please lend me your favor to allow this to go where it may. As long as it does still glorify God.

Glorifying God is to not misrepresent who He is. It's trying to be as accurate as we can be ...in our adoration of Him.

We talk of our personal relationship with Him ...and how He touches our lives.  We look to His guidance through the Holy Spirit ...and we each have personal experiences with this.  Our experiences can be somewhat similar, or they can be somewhat different.  But, what we do have in common is His Word, the Bible.

We glorify God by trusting His Word, and sharing accurately what He has shared with us ...through His Word.

Sometimes we sincerely look to His Word, yet are a bit confused. Perhaps we are not sure about what to think of slight variations in how certain verses are interpreted. We can pray together about it, but for some reason those uncertainties are not always cleared up.  

How do we respond to these situations??

Some of us are eager to explore God's Word, and our imaginations kick in.

Some of us fear that we could be wrong, and we feel the old interpretations are a safer route.  After all, even some of the most eager students of the Bible would likely hesitate to say that they feel they are more knowledgeable than all those years of scholars who've invested much more time and effort in their committed beliefs. Tradition usually has much support, and it's difficult to imagine it would not give a fight to maintain itself.

And ...of course, there is the popular view of unity. Though unity is often a way to unite us in not actually being united ... as it is also called compromise.