[bornacatholic]

*Proto? No dough.

As I have previously said:

*LOL Well, I have certainly been put in my place. I didn't know you were gonna go and cite yourself and bring out the big guns so early :)

I am somewhat cowering as I dare ask - where in the Bible do you locate your authority to definitively rule on these doctrinal disagreements?

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

I am somewhat cowering as I dare ask - where in the Bible do you locate your authority to definitively rule on these doctrinal disagreements?

I do not "definitively rule" upon *any* doctrinal disagreement.

Rather, as a Lay Believer operating under the Authority of my Ordained Presbyters, I freely exercise my Layman's Right to Conscientous Reading of Scripture under the Appellate Authority bequeathed by Apostle Saint Timothy to All Believers without discrimination:

II TIMOTHY 3:16-17
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

Being advised by Timothy that Scripture Alone can thoroughly furnish a Believer unto Perfect Understanding, I intend to continue reading Scripture and speaking my understanding (albeit under the Authority of my Ordained Presbyters, which is also of course commanded in Scripture).

Best, OP