btw, the free interpretation has led to the British-Israeliism as discussed above...
Don't you just love those who assert that everyone possesses the ability to accurately interpret Scripture....except for those who disagree with their interpretation.
Peace be with you
It sure gets blamed for a lot of stuff (i.e., paying alms to get your dead mother out of Purgatory).
Which is why it, and its main propagator, is so roundly considered aberrant and only held by a cultic few.
http://www.theology.edu/journal/volume4/BritishIsraelism.htm
http://www.watchman.org/reltop/britisrl.htm
http://watch.pair.com/brit-israel.html
http://www.blessedquietness.com/journal/housechu/britishisrael.htm
http://www.bible.ca/pre-british-israelism-foy-wallace.htm
“btw, the free interpretation has led to the British-Israeliism as discussed above...”
Protestants pretty much universally denounce the BI’s and the Philadephians, just like the Catholics. So, what are you after? Would you like us to burn them at the stake?
How would the Catholic, “no free interpretation” doctrine stop such heresies from appearing? People have freedom of worship now, if they want to make up their own religion, the Catholics can’t stop them any more than the Protestants can. I can cite plenty of heretical “Catholic” groups as evidence of that.
So, what’s your proposed solution? Repeal the 1st Amendment and go back to state religions?