[blue-duncan]

"Then why are there so many denominations and disagreements as to what is Truth? The whole Protestant idea of sola scriptura emphasizes personal interpretation as the ultimate avenue to the correct interpretation of the Scripture. Is that not the ultimate in arrogance and pride and self-love?"

No, Peter, the ex fisherman, calls it the priesthood of all believers.

1Pe 2:1 "Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious. To whom coming, [as unto] a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, [and] precious, for you, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."

The problem with all of us is often times we don't desire the sincere milk of the Word. We want a substitute, a blended word, a homogenized word, a sweetened word, someone else to prepare it for us, someone else to have tasted it for us and feed it to us so that we don't have to confront it or be confronted by it, face to face, naked and open, unmediated, and responsible. We want to be able to say "he said that" or "they said that" rather than submit to the sincere milk of the Word and say "Thus sayeth the Lord" and humbly submit to it and be changed by it.

[AlbionGirl]

The problem with all of us is often times we don't desire the sincere milk of the Word. We want a substitute, a blended word, a homogenized word, a sweetened word, someone else to prepare it for us, someone else to have tasted it for us and feed it to us so that we don't have to confront it or be confronted by it, face to face, naked and open, unmediated, and responsible. We want to be able to say "he said that" or "they said that" rather than submit to the sincere milk of the Word and say "Thus sayeth the Lord" and humbly submit to it and be changed by it.

It's as if I were looking in a mirror. Very well put.