Nor should they. Everyone should be loud and proud about their beliefs. Subterfuge and hidden motives tend to be malicious in nature, and we'd have a heck of an easier time educating the populace if all the quiet backstabby lying types instead just said their intentions in as clear English as the redditheist.
My personal view is we had a half-dozen or so people who actually knew some inkling of SOME intentions of God, and those fractions of intent were then told, re-told, re-told, re-told, translated, re-told, translated, re-told again, and localized five times in the process, and we all know how good a job localizers do.
God's Truth is the ultimate Truth. It is objective, unchanging and the universe is built on it. Theoretically, we can derive Truth (or a good portion of it) from simply observing the world God created (although maybe not the parts of Truth that lie outside physical existence).
So the constant retelling and discussion and testing, rather than diluting the original pure message, separates the wheat from the chaff.
Nor should they. Everyone should be loud and proud about their beliefs. Subterfuge and hidden motives tend to be malicious in nature, and we'd have a heck of an easier time educating the populace if all the quiet backstabby lying types instead just said their intentions in as clear English as the redditheist.
My personal view is we had a half-dozen or so people who actually knew some inkling of SOME intentions of God, and those fractions of intent were then told, re-told, re-told, re-told, translated, re-told, translated, re-told again, and localized five times in the process, and we all know how good a job localizers do.
I think it's the opposite.
God's Truth is the ultimate Truth. It is objective, unchanging and the universe is built on it. Theoretically, we can derive Truth (or a good portion of it) from simply observing the world God created (although maybe not the parts of Truth that lie outside physical existence).
So the constant retelling and discussion and testing, rather than diluting the original pure message, separates the wheat from the chaff.