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Well the scripture that I posted answers that.

Answers what? I thought you were asking for my chain of reasoning, or where you being disingenuous?

At any rate, no, that Scripture does not answer the question. I asked if you have no need of teaching because you claim to have the mind of Christ? Yes or no?

Only the spiritual can understand the High things of God, the unspiritual wander around only thinking that they do.

Gnosticism rears its ugly head, yet again! You go on and enjoy your secret knowledge. I'll gladly take real grace rather than knowledge that puffs up.

1 Cor 2:5
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

I've spent my years scouring the Bible when I was a Fundamentalist/Evangelical. It was all vanity.

Don't get me wrong. Every Christian should know the Bible. And I don't know what grace God pours out on others in Protestant Churches. But no amount of Bible study is going to definitively answer whether "tongues" are for today, or a thousand other such questions. In fact, it doesn't even tell you the importance of answering those questions.

Knowledge may make you feel better, but feeling better is not the power of God.

Grace to overcome: now THAT'S power.

I spent over twenty years enslaved to sin while running around using the Bible to prove how "saved" I was. I promise you, I availed myself of every single "formula" Bible-Christianity has to offer to overcome the sin that tormented me every day, and all of it was vanity. I knew exactly what Paul was writing about in Romans 7, wretched man that I was.

Yes, Christ released me from the body of this death, but not before I submitted myself to the Church He founded two thousand years ago, and ate His Flesh in the Holy Eucharist.

As far as I'm concerned, all the criticisms against the Catholic Church are contrivances. Jesus set me free when I did what I was told, not when I learned enough of the Bible to argue about what it was saying with others.

I bless God and thank Him for my time as a zealous Protestant, because that's how I learned the Bible. But I also learned Bible-only Christianity is like Darwinism; when you demand all evidence fit your philosophical construct, the philosophical construct is your guide, not the evidence.