If this doctrine is correct…then doesn’t that mean the Holy Spirit is doing an awful job helping people interpret the Bible themselves? I mean so many diff. denominations and beliefs and a great deal all claim the Spirit has guided them to interpret scripture this or that way!
How do most Protestants defend this?/
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- By misquoting (out of context) a passage from the NT.
- By ignoring all accepted (prior to 1520) early Patristic writers on the subject of Tradition and scriptural interpretation (including the Orthodox Churches).
- By ignoring the other, more numerous NT quotations warning against personal interpretation.
- By the false analogy of Catholics explaining what a passage means as proof that Catholics “personally interpret” scripture.
- By ignoring all Scriptural references on accepted Catholic doctrines and dogma.
- By using the ‘textus receptus’ (a Jewish redaction of the Septuagint in 90 AD at Jamnia) as their ‘original manuscript.’
And understand a very important point:
To give up this man-made, scripturally defying ‘doctrine,’ a believer in SS would have to call in to question his or her belief in the Rapture, Dispensationalism, Jesus as Personal Savior, Salvation by Faith Alone, and other 18th and 19th century inventions of third and fourth generation Protestant spin off denominations.
That’s a hard pill to swallow.
Pax Christi
