For Jesus the point is fruit. You'll know people by their fruit, by their life, by how they actually live in the world. Lots of people get excited about new ideas, and then they shove these new understandings in other people's faces and become the very thing they despise. (If you have bought more than five copies of Love Wins for the same person and they still haven't read it, I'm talking about you. Ha-ha.) If a new idea or understanding or interpretation doesn't help transform you into the kind of person Jesus is calling us all to be, then it isn't worth much. Are you more forgiving than you were? Less judgmental? More present? More courageous? Less worried and anxious, more free and loving? That's what's interesting, you being transformed.