Alex, your comment about Rugby players being entitled to their suppositions indicates that everyone here is entitled to his suppositions. This is reinforced by your “Each of us brings to this discussion our own understandings, or interpretations …” While that might be true, it doesn’t mean that everyone’s suppositions, understandings and interpretations are correct. That is the Protestant concept of private interpretation. Conflicting views cannot all be right. There is one truth even if it is uncomfortable. Private interpretations can be made comforting, but is that a reasonable way of preparing for Judgment?

Incidentally, your heading appears to be a quotation. If so, where from?