And I'm another. That doesn't give either of us authority to interpret Scripture on our own.
Theo, without the Church, you wouldn't even know what is authentic Scripture and what's not. For believers, there is no dealing with Scripture without reference to the Church that gives them to us.
let’s test romulus’s theory:
theo, how do you determine which books are Scripture and which are not? is there any human authority or institution that can definitively state the correct canon or are we left to guess or decide on our own?