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So if God helps you interpret scripture one way, and helps the man sitting in the next pew interpret it another way, where do you turn? How do you determine who God is helping more?

You speak as one who knows not the scriptures ... for God has said ...
"I am the Lord, I change not ..."
So, God doesn't help us to develop different interpretations, ... God helps us to truth.

Now, at times, He's got to deal with our own predjudices, which will distort His truth. But, not to worry, ... God is faithful ... and will deliver His truth to the open heart.

Well I certainly wish I knew the scriptures better, but I don't feel you are getting my point.
If two men in the same church have differing interpretations of the same scripture. We may assume that God is helping you to be correct, but what of your neighbor?

Driving through the south, I have often been sadly amused by very small towns containing what appears to be a series of diminishing churches. I have imagined a scenario much like what I proposed to you. Two men, both convinced God is on their side, with no magisterium or teaching tradition to be their storm anchor, dividing the parish and forming yet another of the thousands of Protestant denominations formed since vain men first thought God spoke more clearly to them than He did to the current holders of the Keys to the Kingdom.

It is more than likely that we are wrong than right when we seek to raise ourselves over the great minds, holy and true, who have rightly divided the Word of God and preserved it for us in the teaching traditions of the Church.

Surely you don't think it is profitable for a man to break from his Church, and form a new one, when he has made an all-too-human error in judgement, do you? And I can't believe you think all the thousands of Churches are each correct in dividing Gods word.

Rather, it is a tragedy that following the breaking of those first key threads, those who left with Luther et al continue to further unravel into the deepening error of unguided personal interpretation.

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