The point is, protestants read the Bible and use protestant interpretations that they trust, made by other protestants. Not all of those learned interpretations agree; many disagree strongly. How do they know who to trust?
I just find it hard to believe they read it in the original languages, with full knowledge of cultural and religious meanings and connotations. It makes it hard to take those differing protestant interpretations seriously.
What a farcical straw dog.
RC’s pretend with straight faces that the RC edifice has been a seamless homogeneous body of pure doctrine and practices from 2000 years ago.
What a pile of smelly political pontifications.
1. The RC edifice did not begin until about AD 400.
2. History—the UNrubberized version—is crystal clear that the RC edifice has been a mess with a long list of contradictory dogmatic pontifications and
3. a long list of horrific practices off and on for centuries.
Fantasies to the otherwise are . . . brazen fantasies.
Thankully, there are Christians that have the ability to see through such hogwash—including some RC’s hereon.