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** Therefore, since that same Most Holy Spirit works in me today, I can be trusted to interpret those scriptures! ** - me

** And those who don't interpret the scriptures the same way as you therefore do not have the Most Holy Spirit working in them? ** - Titanites

Such would be the logical conclusion if I thought I could interpret scripture infallibly. Protestants have never denied their sin and it's effect on their ability to interpret. We fully recognize our ability to not heed the Holy Spirit but to "go our own way". That is one of the reasons why we state that all are subject to the supreme judge of scripture. Only the scriptures are inerrant and infallible.

Please Note: We protestants do not reject the authority of the church, creeds and councils, our parents, our elders, etc. Rather, we acknowledge the supreme authority of scripture as given by God:

Westminster Confession, Ch 1. Paragraph X: "The Supreme Judge, by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men, and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture."

** Therefore, since that same Most Holy Spirit works in me today, I can be trusted to interpret those scriptures! ** - me

But isn't the Holy Spirit working in millions of others? Why the disparity in interpretation? Does it not stand to reason that if the Holy Spirit (God!) is the driving force behind your inspiration and everyone elses, that you should all arrive at the same understanding?

You said: "Therefore, since that same Most Holy Spirit works in me today, I can be trusted to interpret those scriptures!"

Then you said: "Such would be the logical conclusion if I thought I could interpret scripture infallibly. Protestants have never denied their sin and it's effect on their ability to interpret. We fully recognize our ability to not heed the Holy Spirit but to "go our own way"."

OK. So which is it; can you be trusted or not? Sounds to me from your second statment that your interpretations can't be trusted.