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To: OpusatFR
As you define your beliefs through your private interpretation of your reading of Scripture, I read Scripture and follow the Holy Spirits promptings and illumination. He has never failed to do instruct me.

By which you mean you use the interpretations of the church magisterium. The Catholic interpretations placed on certain scripture must be known in order to come away with that meaning.

I read the scriptures with no prior interpretations and absorb the meaning they say without presumption. In the rare times where interpretation is necessary instead of just untangling, I use what is said in other places in the scriptures to build my presumptions, then apply them until the scripture makes sense.

Any interpretation of any scripture that has the effect of accruing centralized power to the Catholic leadership, being as how they are the very ones with that interpretations, I can say I find suspect.

815 posted on 07/29/2007 7:57:16 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: William Terrell

BTTT


816 posted on 07/29/2007 8:03:29 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: William Terrell

Good bye and God bless.


819 posted on 07/30/2007 4:05:36 AM PDT by OpusatFR (I)
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