I believe in Gods’ authority, hence his word in the Bible.
You seem to choose the word of humans over God, that is your choice.
And obviously there are different views of what the words of the Bible mean - in this case and in others, many more significant that this.
You seem to choose the word of humans over God, that is your choice.
I certainly see what you mean here.
From my view: I trust God's word in the Bible establishing His Church with authority - His Church, not any man. The Church led by the Holy Spirit, again as He promised as we read in Holy Scripture.
From my view again, it is you who are choosing the words of humans - in this case your own words, or those of other humans whom you have chosen.
We have come, ultimately, to a difference in what the Church is and where the authority for interpreting scripture resides.
Many individual humans arrive at quite different views of the meaning of certain scripture while they believe in God's authority - yet they differ widely, while God does not. It is impossible that God's authority would give truth to contradictory meanings. To continue, one has only his own authority versus that of other human's authority; arguments are never settled, what the "church" believes matters little, members follow whoever's interpretation seems right at the time, then leave for another church. The church becomes fractured, and of little consequence or meaning.
It is so obvious in scripture that this is not the Church of scripture.
That's why scripture talks about the Church so much - that it is led by the Holy Spirit, that it remain one, that it decides and does so with the authority given it by Christ through the apostles - One Holy and Apostolic Church.
Thank you again for your posts. I very much appreciate disagreeing without becoming disagreeable on these threads. May God greatly bless you and yours.