Nowadays, another common aspect of modern life is the sinful life of young women living with men without the shelter of marriage. Although this is considered by the Church to be a sin and rules of the Church are therefore broken, it is very difficult to refuse confession to such believers. The canons are in this way a means through which advice can be given by priests and ministers to try to bring the believers on a religious path. Even so, the priests and ministers, through the canons, are permitted to transmit the believer that the gravity of the sin cannot be repeated. The canons, as generally accepted rules of behavior from the Church also serve as guiding principles in our society today. The canons are infallible expressions of the truth at all ages because the rules of the Church and of God have not changed. They can be interpreted and this is the role and scope of each religion. However, the sins, the beliefs and the generally accepted truths of the Church have remained the same. However, what has changed along the years, decades, and centuries is the community in which these rules and set of norms have been applied. From this confrontation, it may be that the Church is no longer keeping the pace with social and community development. At the same time though the role of the Church is not necessarily that of making itself more accessible to the believer by bending the religious concepts; the role of the Church is rather that of guiding the believer on the right path to God and
Scholars like Borg, Crossan, Meier, and Sanders reach into Torah or into Gnostic and other extracanonical traditions such as Greek novels to draw comparisons and contrasts. The range is comprehensive, from Greco-Roman sources to Jewish and other Mediterranean sources. Often the picture of Jesus that emerges is a construction based on social-scientific and literary trends. There have been some important findings. For one, Jesus is understood more politically, proclaiming the
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