text: doesn't it all boil down to hermeneutics for the christian? if you understand the bible to be the inspired, inerrant, infallible, authoritative word of god sufficient for faith and practice then everything issue of life is looked at through the eyes of your biblical hermeneutics. on the other hand, if you do not believe the above about the bible and it is simply a book like any other book, you can take it or leave it or slice and dice it up because it does not really matter what it says about the issues of life. why does it have to be either/or?