Quotes from Galileo

1. "...and they made the grave mistake of sprinkling these with passages taken from places in the Bible which they had failed to understand properly, and which were ill-suited to their purposes." (p. 1)

2. "...the authors of the Bible intentionally forboe to speak of these things, though all were quite well known to them."  ... "...touching the form of heaven, that our authors knew the truth but the Holy Spirit did not desire that men should learn things that are useful to no one for salvation."  (p. 7)

3. "Others, led on by pride...and declare that everything they say is to be taken as the law of God...as if distorting passages and twisting the Bible to their individual and contradictory whims were the genuine way of teaching, and not a corrupt one." (p. 11)

Dr. Levy,

Are we suppose to take these quotes and then determine our own personal stance on all the things that we have read about for our papers? Are we allowed to back up our own thoughts with other sources? I might attempt to take on what might look like a contrary approach to what I actually think until my conclusion is reached.  Just want to make sure I am on the right track...