Of course, you can read the Gospel. The issue here is that Christ taught ONE truth, and if by your reading and everybody else’s, we extract different interpretations then Christ surely left out a single Church to authoritatively sort out and interpret His word.
But of course we know both scripturally and by the oral traditions as understood by the early Church Fathers that Christ established ONE Church in the Synod of Rome 328AD. Until ELEVEN centuries and before the evil of Protestantism, this Word of Christ was intercepted and still is by ONE Church.
If by “your” reading of scripture (just as Joel Osteen, Billy Graham, David Koresh, Jim Jones, Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar have done etc) provide a profoundly different and contradictory opinion than what the Catholic Church offers, then in the proper sense of the term this becomes a heretic interpretation. This is why the brilliant English essayist and intellectual remarked in his book, “The Great Heresies” that unlike other heresies, Protestantism “spawned a cluster of heresies.”
Daniel212 is still playing neophyte internet theologian and really has no answer why a distingusied constellation of pre-eminent Protestant theologians who, after a lifetime of scholarly study and teaching and serious reflection, converted to Catholicism.
Elise confuses the personal lives of Popes, saints, sinners, martyrs with Catholic teaching. Therein lies a fundamental error. We are talking not about the personal life of Benny Hinn or Rev. Jeremiah Wright but what they discern as authentic scripture.
I see...
I am talking about the POWER of the teachings of the Catholic church to CONTROL what it's elected leaders do.
Okay, so your solution is: Unless I get my teaching from the Catholic Church, then I’m bordering on heresy to even speak scriptures?
Then you also say that being a Protestant is “evil”?
The Pastors or teachers you listed in your screed, are not anyone I have ever followed or whose books I have read. But, you seem to be lumping me in with them. If my interpretation of a scripture is not what the Catholic Church says it is, then it’s wrong.
I find your analysis very narrow, close-minded, and determined to smear any Protestant by declaring only converting to the Catholic religion is an accurate interpretation of the scriptures.
Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone with such a warped sense of God’s teachings. Quite frankly, I feel very sorry for you .. I think you have missed out on the true joy of knowing Christ and learning the beauty of his Word.