After I understood that the Protestant Bible is truncated I lost respect for the notions of Sola Scriptura, which at the beginning of my journey sounded like a sensible position. Then, cautiously, I practiced Catholic scriptural apologetics fearful that there is some esoteric knowledge of the scripure in the Protestants that I somehow missed. Now I can say, with confidence, that the king has no clothes. Anyoner reading the scripture without the Protestant spin implanted under the skin ends up Orthodox or Catholic.
Not so esoteric; quite clear, actually.
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints" -- Colossians 1:25-26"Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Anyone reading the scripture without the Protestant spin implanted under the skin ends up Orthodox or Catholic.
That's not spin. That's Him.
"To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory" -- Colossians 1:27