Related to that is the problem that if you don't get something right away, you blame your failure of understanding on us.
...And the ones that do not never mean that the lay people are priests in the same way that your ordained priests are, unless you're the exception to the rule...
Nice change of subject.
Now I can imagine somebody hauling out the "rubber dictionary" charge or denying that you changed the subject. Fine.
But the real deal is that on the one hand you say we are very different, and then on the other you pretend that you can understand what we teach and think as though it were just a slight difference in message and thought from what you teach and think.
Clue: Ask yourselves (a) What is the difference between ALL believers and EACH believer? (If you think there is NO difference, then you must be a Protestant and/or unfamiliar with the subtleties of the English Language)(if this is the first time you have asked yourselves this question, ask yourselves WHY the geniuses on your side never raised it before.)
(b)why have my frequent references to I COR 12 in this thread been IGNORED by your side?
The instigators of this thread don't know the difference between a discussion about names and a discussion about essences. Similarly, some, maybe many, on your side do not know the difference between a disagreement about how to say something and a disagreement about what that something is. An earlier group of Anti-Catholics prided themselves on their ignorance, and called themselves "know-nothings." Now there's a kind of ham-handed populist approach to theology, based on the fallacy that if God is simple, understanding Him must be easy.
Based on this aw shucks know nothingism, you all just spin further and further away from saying anything we recognize as accurate about ourselves.
So being an intellectual is the key to understanding, eh??? I just don't git what God says...
I take the other approach...Some of you super-duper intellectuals have educated yourselves right out of the simplicity that is Christ Jesus...
Perhaps you've educated yourself out of the idea that all understanding comes from God, NOT your own massive intellect...
No problem here...I'll keep studying the scriptures while you study philosophers and those that study about the scriptures as opposed to those who study the scriptures themselves...I think you call them Theologians...