You wrote: "Call me what you want I guess, but I'm not a member of any protestant organization and I don't invest enough authority in the Catholic church to even think that a reformation of it is or was the answer to religious woes."
I'll call you what you are: Protestant. Words and their meanings matter.
"I also wouldn't say that I'm sola scriptura. I definitely recognize that Christ taught that teachers were needed:...But I also recognize that there are false teachers:"
But you're one of them. If you don't stand with orthodoxy then you aren't orthodox.
"The proper response to false teachers is an appeal to the authority of scripture:"
The proper response to all error in all things is truth. The Church is called the pillar and bulwark of the truth by St. Paul. The Church is the proper guardian and interpreter of the scripture -- not you.
"So call it what you will, I guess."
You guess. Gee, you have to guess when you have the Bible?
Okay, whatever.
But you're one of them. If you don't stand with orthodoxy then you aren't orthodox.
Okay, whatever. I guess.
The proper response to all error in all things is truth. The Church is called the pillar and bulwark of the truth by St. Paul.
Says you:
1Ti 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
I believe God is the pillar and ground of truth and I believe that's exactly what Paul was saying.
The Church is the proper guardian and interpreter of the scripture -- not you
I never claimed to be. Fortunately I put my faith in Jesus Christ and his spirit to lead me to truth.
You guess. Gee, you have to guess when you have the Bible?
lol. Good one.