[Risky-Riskerdo]

>>>>As I have stated, I am not going to engage these persistent efforts to take the discussion down the path of making it personal.<<<<

[[[ I don't see how asking you "Whose interpretation of Scripture is authoritative?" is "making it personal"? Why do you avoid answering the question? ]]]

Why do you avoid answering the question?

That is making it personal.

Please do not do so any longer.

Have a nice day.

[adiaireton8]

Ok, I won't ask you why you are avoiding my question. I will simply point out that you are avoiding answering my question.

-A8

[adiaireton8]

If a person knows whose interpretation of Scripture is authoritative, why hide it from others (especially those wanting to know whose interpretation is authoritative)? Why deprive them of knowledge of the interpretive authority? But if a person doesn't know whose interpretation is authoritative, why hide that from others? Why hide from others that all of one's theological claims have been made while in ignorance/uncertainty about the identity of the interpretive authority? Either way, hiding one's answer to this question does not make any sense.

-A8