How to Read Scripture in a Christ-Centered Way

[@majorphenom1]

Legitimate ✅ Thanks for sharing 🙏🏿 His grace and mercy be upon you all and your loved ones 🕊️🥛🍯

[@patricksochor8743]

This is just one fatal flaw in hero worship. You can never know the internal workings of a persons mind with reliable certainty. This fact is ever more true the more distant that person is from you. Relying on a retelling, translated and edited multiple times over a millennium is clearly such a distance not only in time and place but in language and culture. Learning lessons from an example of what we consider good people is well and good but shaping your life to be obedient to how one person lives is foolish for exactly the reasons given in the OP. Selfish people will interpret the story to their own ends as will the political, the devote, the wise, the ignorant, and so on. No one it’s fully correct nor can they be but they certainly will act like they are while being sure to call out others for their perceived heresy. Never worship heroes. You will always be disappointed, not the least for the myths you create of them in your own mind.