“If anyone believes that Christianity is a religion of revelation, then it strikes me as odd that people rely on themselves to decide what this revelation is.”
Everyone who reads the scriptures or hears a sermon interprets what they are hearing based on their experience, education and genetics. that’s why when you read a passage or hear a different sermon on the same passage, something new comes out of it, even hearing the same sermon over again.
Acts 2:6-8, “Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?”
The words in the different languages of these people have different meaning and import just as we have been debating here on the eastern/western/Greek/English translations. they had to interpret their meaning.
I agree. But what strikes me as odd is when people cast themselves as an authority of competence that exceeds that of the Church, that which God promised to be the pillar and foundation of the truth, guided by the Spirit. Is the Scriptures subject to us, or are we subject to what the Scriptures say?
Regards