is how you posed the question in post #12 and I answered it in like fashion.
"Indeed you are.........and that's the problem."
For you maybe. Not for me. I am supposed to think for myself. God says so in Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, let us reason together" says the Lord. Not let some priest or denomination do my thinking for me to follow blindly.
....” I am supposed to think for myself. God says so in Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together” says the Lord. Not let some priest or denomination do my thinking for me to follow blindly.”......
A new-born Christian is directed to grow to spiritual maturity, he or she should understand that it is necessary to transition from the “milk” to the “solid food” of God’s Word....so that that a Christian may fully discern both good and evil.
It is writtten...”As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby.”...1 Peter 2:2
And here....”For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the Word of righteousness, for he is a babe.” ...Hebrews 5:13
Without study and reading God’s Word independently from what is taught and preached one will generally not get past and intellectual understanding of scripture, which is even possible for the unsaved to acquire.
When people depend entirely on what their denomination or church teaches they remain infants who need to be fed and told what to believe.....they are spiritual babies unable to digest spiritual meat.
However ‘even a baby learns to hold the bottle himself’...so holding the world of God on ones own is not too much for God to ask of all Christians.