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“i.e., understood, by anyone who would govern their lives according to the will of God”

Yes, I understand you are each your own Pope, and so whatever you divine is perfect and true....No matter that it differs from the person sitting next to you, equally inspired.

Yes, I understand you are each your own Pope, and so whatever you divine is perfect and true....No matter that it differs from the person sitting next to you, equally inspired.

That fallacious argument is getting old...

It's not what we divine as perfect and true, it's what is in the word of God...we are inspired by...

I can claim any nonsense and claim it's from God, but if it does not align itself with what is in the word of God...

It's nonsense

Our baseline of truth is the word of God, not ourselves...

Yes, I understand you are each your own Pope, and so whatever you divine is perfect and true....No matter that it differs from the person sitting next to you, equally inspired.

LOL, except it's generally not different. But again, thanks for your response. It proves the point I'm trying to make. The jury will have to interpret the result for themselves. :)

popman, yes, it is tired, and frustrating if you let it be. Everyone must interpret. It's a function of being human. If interpreting makes one a pope, then the charge is true, but true for everyone on the planet with the capacity for conscious thought. None can escape the effort to understand what they are hearing or reading. God made us that way and by natural law that is how we must function in the world. We can from there choose to be honest and admit that is what we must do, or we can pretend that it's OK when we do it, but not OK when someone else does it. This is not the spirit of liberty we have in Christ, but some other spirit. My truest pity for those entrapped in it.

BTW, the reader will observe that as yet no official Roman refutation of the passage in question has been presented, so of all the possible "self-poped" interpretations out there, we have no competition from Rome. They haven't even showed up to play. We win by default. Sweet. :)

Peace,

SR