As you know, I have no problems with searching the Scriptures. I happen to love the Scriptures. However, as you also know, the interpretation of these same Scripture has changed after 1520. Again, I ask, "has God revealed Himself differently"? Do we now look at Sacred Scriptures totally differently then the first Christians do?
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The revelation was the same as it always had been ... the scriptures.John 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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As you know, I have no problems with searching the Scriptures. I happen to love the Scriptures. However, as you also know, the interpretation of these same Scripture has changed after 1520. Again, I ask, "has God revealed Himself differently"? Do we now look at Sacred Scriptures totally differently then the first Christians do ?
In the scripture I cited, Jesus informs the Pharisees, the scribes, and the preservers of the Jewish Law (i.e. the Lawyers) ... that, though they had been entrusted with the scriptures, ... their interpretation was not accurate.
If those to whom the oracles were entrusted misinterpreted them ... so can others, no matter how well established.
Jesus made much of the scriptures ... I don't that it could be argued that He didn't make them, as opposed to Jewish culture and tradition (which HE frequently violated), ... the foundation of His ministry.
I don't think that it is a bad idea at all to follow His example in this.