>Yes, as long as it's reasonable. I think that there are some folks who make "strictness of interpretation", if you will, more important than a much more important issue, namely allowing the love of God to flow through you to others.

How can you strictly interperate a book that was orginally written in another language? Thats like a Strict Interperation of a Loose Translation. Thats why I never put too much stock in the bible.