The Letter and the Spirit. ⚖️ The fundamental value that Christianity brought is that we read the Holy Scriptures in the light of the new spiritual experience established by Christ through His life. So, the text is not everything. The text alone is the letter with all its harshness and limitations. The text without experience is old; because its letters cannot change and cannot keep up with life in its speed or its constant movement of development. But experience alone is capable of understanding the meaning of the text, explaining it, and adding much to its meanings. Experience begins from the text and rises to horizons greater than the text itself. When the Son of God became incarnate, Christians were able to understand the Old Testament in a different way. The text remained the same for the Jews, but it acquired a different meaning in the Church because of faith in the Son of God who explained the text, not the letters or the words, but revealed its goals. Religiosity according to the letter is being content with the text, it is dispensing with the experience of faith in Jesus Christ, it is a return to the bondage of the letter and dispensing with the horizons of the Spirit. The text is a constraint, but the Spirit is life. #Letter_and_Spirit #Scripture #Spiritual_Experience #Incarnation #Faith #Freedom_in_Christ #Old_Testament #New_Understanding #The_Spirit_Gives_Life #Christianity