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And that is a shame that the Church has to face up to. Yet, a verse by verse commentary is not necessary when the teachers are catechized properly. I will say again that the lack of catechization is what has driven so many people from the Church into the arms of the organizations that are ready to receive them.

Nice try mark.. but the Bible is a large volume and the church teaches only the magistrum can properly interpret scripture..

I have read catholics theologians that come up with new interpretations that no one else has ever seen and that are purely from their own imagination.. and catholics swallow them whole, as if they are church truth . When in fact they are being their own pope..

The charge by Catholics that every protestant is his own pope rings hollow when the church has never taken time to teach the scriptures in context in an OFFICIAL catholic commentary ...so every bible study teacher , every theologian , every priest on Sundays is in fact giving his personal reading ...because your church knows if they ever did a contextual commentary it would show the faulty doctrine for what it is

I have read catholics theologians that come up with new interpretations that no one else has ever seen and that are purely from their own imagination..

Are you referring to Hans Kung et al?

Negative. Christianity teaches that Jesus is the pinnacle; therefore the Gospels are the core of Scripture, with the NT read through the Gospels and the OT through the New. Just as it is with the teachings of Jesus - the Faith - being the core and the Scriptures interpreted through the Faith and not vice versa. The Faith came long before any NT Scriptures were written, and in fact, the Scriptures were chosen to support the Faith, not vice versa. That is why Protestant understanding is often so different from traditional Christianity. The development of the myraid Protestant faiths came about in an entirely different process.