For my research paper I wrote about the discrepancies in the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). My main point was no matter how many issues and contradictions there are throughout each of the Gospels the main takeaways of the Word of God are universally understood and accepted within Christianity. Regardless of if they were all exactly the same everyone would have their different interpretation of it, so I think discrepancies are unavoidable either way. One way these various retellings of the Ramayana traditions have affected the way I think about my research paper is that there is no shortage of discrepancies in any tradition. The epic has been written by many different authors just as The Bible has and has been altered by each person who wrote it. Just as the Word is universally accepted and believed within Christianity, the Ramayana tradition is within Indian culture. This parallel has reinforced my belief that the discrepancies aren’t too taxing on the structure of Christianity. After all, both The Bible and the Ramayana have both been altered by humans which inherently makes it flawed. And this curse of the flaws of humanity is another way in which the two parallel. Both pieces have been changed by humans for human understanding, gain, agenda-seeking, whatever you’d like to call it. And depending on who each translation was written by, you can tell why they may have changed the interpretation in the way that it parallels their geography, culture, or beliefs.