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I agree : ) with all you said in #1746, and these hermeneutical principles would be applicable to anything we read, especially when it's from a different culture and age. But RobbyS said that in addition to the Scriptures, we need "a key to their interpretation." Keeping all you said in #1746 in mind, the real key to understanding the scriptures is found in the verses I quoted from 1 Cor. 2. A child of God, according to Rom. 8, is one who is "led by the Spirit of God." 1 Cor. 2 enlarges upon His ministry in us, and it's worth reading again: "For to us God revealed them [mysterious things] through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, of which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit."

For to us God revealed them [mysterious things] through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, of which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit."

By this are you implying that there may be others out there that are guided by the Holy Spirit besides the pope?

Say it ain't so......(*g*)