No suspense at all, but interesting none the less.
The reason I read it was to see if the writer could argue that point without also establishing a strawman "Protestant" who single handedly sets out to interpret the scriptures and deal directly with the Holy Spirit.
He couldn't.
Now look, guys, way back when Carvajal in Spain traded away Schism between Spain and Rome for full authority to send priests and brothers in all the orders to the New World as missionaries, they could argue their way through the who struck johns without referencing the Protestants.
Else, there'd been a Spanish Reformed Church!
Interesting that it took that little to avoid Schism! And that was in a time when Protestants and Catholics were all the rage in neighboring France, duking it out on the battlefield!
Writing has gone downhill since those days ~
A Lutheran friend of mine once reminded me that if the Catholic church didn't exist, they'd had to invent it just to make their own theological positions make sense. Reading this piece I am now convinced it's going both ways eh!
There was no Spanish Reformed Sect because the Spanish Inquisition was up to the task (Thank God!).