"The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life." (2 Corinthians 3:6)

Sometimes it happens that a man seeks in the Bible the system by which he will compensate the usage of the reason and personal comprehension of the truth. He searches for the system of the rules of behavior by which he will free himself from the responsibility to think about what is really good and what is really bad.

The Bible has the purpose to help a man to understand the truth and not to compensate his own usage of the reason and personal responsibility in the understanding of the truth. If he still tries to misuse it, seeking in it the system of the rules of behavior by which he will get the salvation, then he will not succeed to realize its global harmony. As Biblical revelation claims the reform of the inner motives and is not content with some formal scheme of behavior, that trial of the interpreting of the Bible will lead its interpreter to the situation to by one "rule" come to the conflict with another "rule".

For instance, in his Sermon on the Mount Jesus says first: "In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." (Matthew 5:16), and then: "Be careful not to do your good deeds in front of people, so that they will notice you. If you do that, you will not receive a reward from your Father who is in heaven." (Matthew 6:1).

Jesus first calls us to perform good deeds so that people see them and then to watch that the people do not see them. Isn't that contradictory? No, if we want to understand the sense of the message!

If Jesus said only "Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven", many would be satisfied with their justice, unconscious of the fact that it is moved by the wish for approval and favor of the environment, instead by real Godly love.

If Jesus only said "...not to do your good deeds in front of people, so that they will notice you", many would find the excuse for their senseless and useless life which does not represent any deed nor blessing for this world.

So, the purpose of this illusory contradiction is the definition of the real motives of our justice. If we are moved by real motives, then our good deeds will not be of sensational spirit; they will not move the attention of others to ourselves but will raise the thoughts and hearts of the people towards Christ. Those deeds will be His and will reveal His character.

Just because the Holy Scripture (differently from, for instance, Koran) does not give the "recipe" for the living but asks for the understanding and realization of its sense, it "lets" the multitude of different trials of interpretations and multitude of religious communities which interpret it as it suits them. Of course that none of wrong interpretations does not succeed to interpret such Holy Scripture so that it should stay one whole unit, but always one verse stays in contradiction with superficial interpretation of the second verse.