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THEOLOGICAL CRISIS   A few weeks ago, I received a message from one of the members in our youth group of days gone by asking to comment on concerns raised while viewing a few Biblical documentaries.   One of the concerns was the challenge one faces in reading the Bible, distinguishing translations and interpretations from the original manual scripts; primarily the definition of words from one language to another based on one’s interpretation.   Before responding to this member’s concern, who I will refer to as CD, I had to re-read CD’s message.   CD started out by writing that he was having a “theological crisis.”   I had to laugh.   I am sure many of us in our own walk of faith are not immune to facing a “theological crisis” every now and then.   Not that we question God and who God is, but it is the challenges we face in our own faith; what we have come to believe and how living in our world causes us to reexamine our own beliefs.   How do...