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I wonder if the RCs and EOs realize how often they use that word, "authority," as some kind of mystical moving van in their attempt to vacate the office of the Holy Spirit and replace it with all the moldy furniture of the magisterium and its doctrines of men.

Beautifully said, Amen!

There should be a remedial reading class assignment for all who don't understand the sovereignty of God.

Some men are taught by the Holy Spirit, and those men meet in a church to worship God in truth. Other men forsake the graciousness of God and attempt to assign the work of the Holy Spirit to a body of fallible men to dole out as they see fit.

And what's the end result when this happens?

We get purgatory, indulgences, praying for the dead, treasury of merit, transubstantiation, Maryolatory and clerics who place themselves above other Christians as "another Christ".

We get purgatory, indulgences, praying for the dead, treasury of merit, transubstantiation, Maryolatory and clerics who place themselves above other Christians as "another Christ".

EXACTLY!

And in their refusal to hold themselves and their faith accountable to the word of God, they absorb pagan beliefs, empty rituals, "vain jangling," and worst of all, they misunderstand what true justification means -- saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." -- 2 Timothy 4:2-4