Once YOPIOS is invoked, the invoker has run the course of rational debate. His defense becomes, in the words of Pee Wee Herman, “I know you are, but what am I?!” That is, he sets up a defense that is insurmountable with rationality. From that moment on, the YOPIOS defender can claim that “it’s just your interpretation.”
The reality is that ALL interpretation of Scripture is YOPIOS, including that sanctioned by the RCC.
What’s next with the YOPIOS defense? Will you invoke it if I claim that John 11:35 means that Jesus shed tears? Where is it not (in)valid?
Nope, any invocation of YOPIOS must be taken as a concession of the debate.
What a shame that this thread has taken this turn.
Your own personal interpretation of scripture is just that: YOURS. To attribute perfection to it is to make yourself the final arbiter, but try as you may, you can not get it done, for you are not the final arbiter, and your own personal interpretation of scripture is not the correct one just because you say so.
One’s petulant insistence that all see it the same is pathetic and sad, nothing more. It is an admission of surrender. It is defeat.
I am not bound by your flawed interpretation of anything (thank God).