Tradition
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Fallibility of reliance on tradition alone[edit]
Every person's interpretation is colored by their individuality; the Jews in the time of Christ were prevented from accepting Him due to their literal interpretations[edit]
"There is yet a third method of acquiring knowledge,—by revelation, or the inspired books; but the difficulty in this case is that every person's interpretation of the book is colored by his own individuality. In the time of Jesus Christ, the Jews were prevented from accepting him by clinging to the literal interpretation of their book. . . . ."
- (Words of Abdul-Baha: From the Notes of Miss E. Rosenberg, 1901, "The Symbolic Meaning of Walking on the Sea", in Star of the West, Volume 8, Issue 9, p. 115)
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