[metmom]

Just what guarantees do you have on your interpretation of Scripture? If you suggest it is the Holy Spirit, how do you rationalize the He has lead others to different conclusions?

Then that disqualifies the *Catholic* interpretation as well.

[Gamecock]

Can’t even get the Pope to agree with “Catholic” teaching.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Just what guarantees do you have on your interpretation of Scripture? If you suggest it is the Holy Spirit, how do you rationalize the He has lead others to different conclusions?

The same can easily be said of Catholicism, as not one of the early saints for the first 500-600 years upheld Roman Catholic theology as it exists today. Augustine, for example, was the true origin--at least secondary to the Bible--of Calvinist theology.

What guarantees do you have that Roman Catholic theology, as it exists today, is the absolute truth? It is not supported by the genuine tradition of the church throughout the centuries, so that leaves only the Holy Spirit and the innovations of the Magisterium that came hundreds upon hundreds of years later. In fact, the theology of Rome today is even different from what it was 50 or 60 years ago. Today the Pope is a heretic and will burn in hell when he dies, by Roman Catholic standards of less than a century ago. Then again, so was John Paul, as a result of his hob nobbing with Muslims and other infidels as equal believers.