[1000 silverlings]

You are greatly distorting Protestant teachings. We don't pick and choose the word that we find agreeable and dismiss the other. In fact, all of my pastors have been very fond of the disagreeable over the pleasant.

There is no private interpretation in scripture and scripture interprets scripture. We are taught to be as Bereans and to search the scriptures to see that the things that are taught us, are true.

Your vaunted magisterum are just men, and you have no idea whether they are indwelt by the HS or not. You just take their word for it that they are.

As for unity, unity is not Ecumenism.

[adiaireton8]

There is no private interpretation in scripture and scripture interprets scripture.

Who interprets the Scripture that interprets Scripture? Since there cannot be an infinite regress, the buck has to stop at private interpretation somewhere.

If within Protestantism there is no "private interpretation", but only Scripture interpreting Scripture, then why are there 20,000+ contrary interpretations of Scripture within Protestantism?

-A8

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Every word righteous.

[Quix]

Well said.

[adiaireton8]

unity is not Ecumenism.

I agree, but that's probably because we are using the term 'Ecumenicism' in different ways.

What exactly do you think it means to be "perfected in unity"?(John 17:23)

-A8