[Gamecock]

What our FRoman Catholic FRiends don't seem to grasp is there is ALWAYS personal interpretion going on.

We limit ours to Scriture. They claim to have Scripture on the same level as the Magesterium, but they seem to always default to their interpretion of the latter.

Give me Scripture. If is far less convulated than the tradition of men..

[HarleyD]

We limit ours to Scripture. They claim to have Scripture on the same level as the Magisterium, but they seem to always default to their interpretation of the latter.

Exactly.

This is from an article I posted by Schaffer earlier today:

The problem with the pre-Reformation medieval church was not so much that it did not hold to belief in an inerrant Bible as that it allowed the whole range of nonbiblical theological ideas and superstitions to grow up within the church. These ideas were then placed alongside of the Bible and even over the Bible, so that the Bible’s authority and teaching were subordinated to nonbiblical teachings. This resulted in the abuses which led to the Reformation. But note that the problem was not that the pre-Reformation church did not believe in the inerrancy of Scripture; the problem was that it did not practice the inerrancy of Scripture, because it subordinated the Bible to its fallible teachings.

Today's problem is that Christians just don't accept the word of God as inerrant and infallible. Even in the pre-Reformation church, Catholics believed in the inerrancy of scripture. The Magisterium just plopped their superstitions on top of it.

Today we see many a Catholic and Protestant arguing about how "errors" exists in scripture.