The Bible needs an interpreter. What makes you so confident that you are interpreting it correctly?
Are you saying that your pastor understands scripture or what it means better than the earliest Christians?
Do the teachings of the RC Church need an interpreter as well? How can you know that they teach without some intermediary interpreting their interpretation?
Yes, I thinks the Bible needs to be interpreted. It doesn’t need to be added to; however, which is what a lot of tradition is.
As for my pastor’s knowledge, or my own, well we can read the Church Fathers, and the Bible on our own. And we can compare what we see in one with what we seen in the other. It’s not like the Church Fathers were divinely inspired, or that their writings are a part of the canon. Quite possibly they are mistaken in parts.
All I’m saying is that blindly accepting any authorities word that this is what God said, or meant, is to surrender our own God-given intelligence.
True, we might be led into error that way, but who is to say that over the centuries the Catholic Church has not been led into error?
I think that if we follow the lead of the Holy Spirit to the best of our abilities, we won’t go too far wrong.
Yes it does...But not from any one from your religion...
Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Luk 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Joh 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
1Jn 5:6 This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
1Jn 5:10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself:
We have the Teacher, living within us...Why would we go to some kook who wears a dress and red shoes who bows and prays to statues of Jesus' mother who tells you that he is the Holy Father???
We have the interpreter...
By Evangelical standards, the interpreter of Scripture is not the reader, but God the Holy Spirit.
Any man who attempts to interpret Scripture independent of God the Holy Spirit, fails to remain in fellowship with God through faith in Christ.
Worse than this, are man-made institutions attempting to counterfeit what God provides, then insist others follow them based upon an authority they demand they have been given, but still fail to remain in faith with Christ.