I recently had a conversation with someone who objected to the way many churches “twist” the Bible towards a specific doctrine. This is a very fine point in terms of the where the person was going, but I did not really like his use of the word “twist”.  Underlying use of this word is the idea that the text of the Bible has an objective or true meaning which can be twisted in a different direction. From my studies in literature, I know that any text at all is subject to various possible meanings, and although some interpretations are clearly better than others, there is no definitive, final and correct interpretation for any text. How much more is this true of sacred text. As…