The truth still remains unchanged.
I know you don’t agree with me, but it is most likely due to a lack of confidence in God in the reading and understanding of the Word of God. My confidence does not come from myself; I have no confidence in myself, but I have full confidence in Christ and His promises, one of which is the Holt Spirit revealing the truth of His Word to each individual.
You do not understand.
You have to be taught the correct Scripture interpretation by someone who already knows the correct Scripture interpretation! You must be taught the correct interpretation of Scripture by someone who can trace these correct interpretations back to Christ Himself or else you will make errors in your interpretation.
You cannot be grounded in the truth unless you first learn the truth from people who learned it from other persons who know the truth and who also taught it to them
2 Timothy 2:2. This rich deposit of faith of Scripture interpretation in the Catholic Church goes back through the years all the way to the Apostles and Jesus. This is why Peter states:
2 Peter 3:16
as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which
untaught and
unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
You are
untaught (you are either self-taught or else taught by other self-taught people) and therefore
you are **unstable **(not grounded in the truth) because you were not taught the correct Scripture interpretation by the Catholic Church and you did you learn the correct Scripture interpretation from the
Catholic Church who alone has the authority of God to interpret
her own book’s words.
1 Timothy 3:15
I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the
church of the living God, the
pillar and ground of the truth.
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The Catholic Church is the pillar (support) and ground (foundation of the truth), not Scripture.**
It is the Catholic Church that correctly interprets Scripture and she is guided by the Holy Spirit.
Unless you learn the correct interpretation of the Scriptures from someone who learned the correct interpretation from the Catholic Church, you will not learn the correct interpretation and if you do not learn the correct interpretation from the Magisterium (successors of the Apostles), then you will end up twisting the Scriptures to mean something that they do not.
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The Bible belongs to the Catholic Church. It is her book.** The Bible was compiled in order to help to teach the Catholic Faith to its members.
She alone has the authority to interpret her own Scriptures. Any interpretation of Scripture that does not agree with Catholic teaching is in error. All Scripture, when properly interpreted, confirms the Catholic Church’s teachings.
It is naive and absurd to believe that a person can pick up the Catholic Church’s book and then proceed to correct her in her teachings concerning her own book.
Again, you are imposing a position or title, whatever you consider it, onto Scripture. One needs only do a simple Word search in Scripture to debunk the notion that a priest is a Bishop or Elder according to the Word of God. Without the Holy Spirit of Truth, then no one will not be able to understand and things like I said above about the priest not being an Bishop nor overseer, seems foolish, just as other things I have said are foolishness to many.
"Bishop, Priest, and Deacon
The sacrament of holy orders is conferred in three ranks of clergy: bishops, priests, and deacons.
Bishops (episcopoi) have the care of multiple congregations and appoint, ordain, and discipline priests and deacons. They sometimes appear to be called “evangelists” in the New Testament. Examples of first-century bishops include Timothy and Titus (1 Tim. 5:19–22; 2 Tim. 4:5; Titus 1:5).
Priests (presbuteroi) are also known as “presbyters” or “elders.” In fact, the English term “priest” is simply a contraction of the Greek word presbuteros. They have the responsibility of teaching, governing, and providing the sacraments in a given congregation (1 Tim. 5:17; Jas. 5:14–15).
Deacons (diakonoi) are the assistants of the bishops and are responsible for teaching and administering certain Church tasks, such as the distribution of food (Acts 6:1–6)."
More at:
catholic.com/library/Bishop_Priest_and_Deacon.asp
The
foolishness of men includes their thinking that it is possible for every person to read the Scriptures for themselves and then automatically accurately interpret them. It is foolishness to believe that the Holy Spirit is guiding every person in Scripture interpretation.
Personal interpretation of Scripture leads to contradicting doctrines and this is why there are now thousands of Protestant churches. However, the Holy Spirit does not teach contradicting doctrines so He is definitely not guiding these individuals.
One Protestant personally believes that Baptism washes away sins. Another Protestant personally does not believe that Baptism washes away sins, yet both Protestants claim that the Holy Spirit has personally guided them to truth.
The Holy Spirit does not teach conflicting doctrines.
Scripture Alone causes Chaos!
