The reformers in themselves (not unlike Satanists who view selfishness as the ideal).
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imho, what a hideous falsehood.
The reformers put their faith
IN
GOD ALONE. As God engineered from the beginning.
And in GOD ALONE'S CAPACITY TO LEAD THEM BY HIS SPIRIT INTO ALL TRUTH.
JUST AS DADDY SAID HE WOULD DO THROUGH CHRIST'S WORDS ABOUT HIS SPIRIT.
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THIS IS MY BELOVED SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED.
NOT
This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased who will get y'all kicked off on yet another corrupt monster of a flesh driven powermongering authoritarian bureaucracy wrongly in the name of God but actually having little to do with God . . . but . . . hey, it's a human thing and that's . . . whatever it is . . . so . . . there you have it . . . happy pontificating and abusing the serfs.
If they put their faith in God they wouldn't need every man to read the bible and come to a personal interpretation, they'd beleive that shepards should steer the flock not 'every lamb for himself'.
The apostolic church beelived Christ and the Holy Spirit guided them; the Catholics a single man, the prots? Many men.