No.47 Referenced from ~ Part2 - Chapter 2 - Easy Study 4

Faith is finding the inevitability for religious interpretations that seem unnecessary

Hermeneutics is an attempt to derive new understanding of an object by arbitrarily setting the "background" of the object. A red circle drawn on a piece of paper can be interpreted in a new way by placing an evening sky or a white flag in the background.

In general, religious interpretations, that is, religious doctrines, are unnecessary interpretations of events and are essentially unnecessary as explanations of facts. The incident in which Jesus was executed by the Jews in first-century Palestine can be explained as a "conflict between Jesus' teachings and Judaism." In this understanding, further interpretations of Jesus' death, such as the doctrinal interpretation of his "atoning death," are unnecessary.

However, our faith is based on seeing the inevitability of daring to adopt such religious interpretations that may be seen as superfluous. Hermeneutically speaking, this means finding the "background" that connects oneself with the cross of Jesus.