John MacArthur is not an authority for me anymore. Can you reference anyone more qualified. Perhaps someone with an “St.” before their name.
Disliking someone doesn’t refute their arguments. And I have now read enough of the ‘church fathers’ to know they disagreed on a great many issues.
But consider this...”“Read all you want but the Bible forbids private interpretation (2 Peter 1:20).”
If that is true, how could any of the ‘saints’ or ‘church fathers’ write commentaries on the Bible? Many did, you know. The Cardinal who acted as Martin Luther’s accuser wrote a commentary on the entire Bible - except the Apocrypha.
If we are forbidden to make a private interpretation, then how could they write commentaries that offered their interpretation?
If the Catholic Church alone holds the corporate interpretation, where is it found? Why doesn’t the Church save everyone a great deal of bother writing “private interpretations” and write an authoritative public one?
And how stupid must the Holy Spirit be! For when He breathed the Word of God, he didn’t do so clearly. Maybe God didn’t know enough Greek! Maybe God is slow of speech, like Moses! Good thing the Catholic Church is there to clean up His mess...except it hasn’t done so.
But what does the scripture SAY? “...we have something more sure, the prophetic word, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, 20knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”
John MacArthur has explained the Greek behind our English translations. If he is wrong, point out his error. No scripture CAME from anyone’s private thoughts or interpretations of God’s will, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
“Perhaps someone with an “St.” before their name.”
Sorry, but he isn’t dead yet. That is required for you to listen, I take it?
Plus, there’s that creepy exhumation of the body in this whole “process”. Do they still take relics when they do that?