Dear Dr Eckleburg, why should I prefer your interpretations to the interpretations of anybody else? Your opinions, well-founded as they may seem to you, differ from those of many millions, many millions of other believers, and here I include Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox, and for that matter, many Scripture-believing Jews.
So why should I prefer your Bible views and not those of so many others, equally intelligent and equally honest as yourself?
Oy.
Oh, dear Mrs. Don-o, you shouldn't.
You should search the Scriptures for yourself and see if these things are so.
Are you up to it or is it easier just to get your Scripture filtered through the magisterium and "other Christs" and assorted mediators between God and men rather than the only mediator, Christ Jesus, since you have all those "dishes to do" and so on and so forth?
May we both be able to speak like Paul...
"I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost" -- Romans 9:1