If I am successful this morning, you will not understand me. I believe that we get along with each other because we are willing to misunderstand each other. It may be that because we are willing to misunderstand other people, we make it possible for them to be our friends. I believe it is critical to our living comfortably with each other that anything any of us says be easily misunderstood. Nowhere in our lives is this factor of misunderstandibility more obvious, and more essential to compatibility than in religion.
Some people say they believe in the Bible.
Other people say they believe in the Bible. They vary in length and in content. Obviously, these believers in the Bible do not understand each other. However, by not pushing for complete understanding, or even suggesting that there is a misunderstanding, they smile at each other, acknowledge each other as sharing in understanding, and go happily on their separate ways. God built the world in 6 days, the Bible says.