Your experiment seemed a little vague to me.
I agree with JohnnyM when he said that if the church Mr. C went to was the Mormon Church, he would then be right to seperate from it. However, if his thoughts led him to stray from a sound Independant Baptist Church, then he would of course be wrong. ;^)
Seriously, your experiment seemed to focused on Mr. C's feelings. Our feelings are not the Holy Spirit. Our feelings can easily be manipulated.
-ksen
On purpose.
I agree with JohnnyM when he said that if the church Mr. C went to was the Mormon Church, he would then be right to seperate from it. However, if his thoughts led him to stray from a sound Independant Baptist Church, then he would of course be wrong. ;^)
Can't we think abstractly about Sola Scriptura? I deliberately did not name the new "proposition" which Mr C discovered because I don't want to get into arguments about specifics.
Seriously, your experiment seemed to focused on Mr. C's feelings. Our feelings are not the Holy Spirit. Our feelings can easily be manipulated.
His convictions, which were reached through study, prayer and the help of the Holy Spirit. I thought that some of the non-Catholic/Orthodox here would be able to understand if I stayed away from any one specific.
Try to answer it this way. If you were Mr C what would you do? Would you abide by the authority of the Church you go to? Would you listen to the counsel of your Christian friends? Or would you go with your convictions, especially since the Holy Spirit helped convince you?
To put it a third way, who has the ultimate authority? The Church? Other Christians you trust? Or what the Scripture says (that the Holy Spirit helped you understand)?
SD