Your comment: “Nobody is following Luther just because they believe that Scripture is the final authority and that it contains all we need to know pertaining to life and godliness.”
So your personal interpretation is always correct and you need no guidance in understanding God’s word. Wow!
From: http://www.catholic.com/blog/tim-staples/the-protestant-achilles-heel
Sola Scriptura was the central doctrine and foundation for all I believed when I was Protestant. On a popular level, it simply meant, “If a teaching isn’t explicit in the Bible, then we don’t accept it as doctrine!” And it seemed so simple. Unassailable. And yet, I do not recall ever hearing a detailed teaching explicating it. It was always a given. Unchallenged. Diving deeper into its meaning, especially when I was challenged to defend my Protestant faith against Catholicism, I found there to be no book specifically on the topic and no uniform understanding of this teaching among Protestant pastors.
Your comment is a false statement: “I realize that Catholics wish with their whole hearts that non-Christians would be followers of men, but it’s just not so” So is this how you interpret the Bible?
The Catholic Church has a leader and speaks with authority as delegated by Jesus Christ and will be inspired by the Holy Spirit until the end.
And the other Churches have no leader who speaks with church authority about matters of faith and morals. Apparently, anyone can form a new church and collect vast sums of money.
In all the responses I've received from Catholics, I begin to see why the church doesn't want the laity to try to interpret Scripture for themselves.
I never said that nor did I imply that. What I denied was that I am following a man, that Catholics cannot understand, simply because there is one point of agreement in understanding of Scripture.
When two people both reading Scripture come to the same conclusion, does NOT mean by default that one is *following* the other. It simply is evidence of the fact taht the Holy Spirit is guiding them in understanding it.
You have a failed Pentecostal Holy Roller as your chief, main NT apologist...That alone ought to tell you something...
1Jn_5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
That's some pretty solid 'scripture alone' doctrine right there...It's some pretty solid evidence that there is no path to salvation outside of what is written in the scriptures...
So the sad thing is you get some character who was 'slain in the spirit', speaks in a non human language as proof of his being filled with the Holy Ghost, heals people with the wave of a hand (something no Catholics can do) to handle your anti-bible apologetics...
Did he ever explain how he was a born-again, spirit filled Christian, and then he wasn't???
I have listened to this faker...He leaves out scripture, adds scripture and ignores scripture to try and justify your relgion...And you guys don't know the difference...
And where do you get guidance to "interpret " the scriptures?