“The craziest thing to me is the presumption that the voices in their heads telling them how to personally interpret Scripture is the Holy Spirit.”
INDEED.
LOL
That's not how it works...Interpretation of scripture is not required by me or the Holy Spirit...
It's clear to me why Catholics have such a huge problem with the Holy Spirit communicating with the individual believer so I'll give you an idea how it works with me...
The scriptures tell us that when we first delve into the Holy words of God, we are as babes...We require milk...The milk is the simplicity of the word...The basics...And one of the basics is grace thru faith without works...
Without the basics, you will never get beyond 1st base in the scripture...You won't even get to 1st base...After I was saved, I spent time in the scriptures and couldn't make hide nor hair of it...Even when others tried to explain it to me...
When I would find scriptures that fit together, something would click...I'd read the same things over and over again and not see anything...
When I would grasp something, all of a sudden a piece of scripture that I read numerous times became different to me...All of a sudden, I would see that verse in a whole new light...
It's like going to school...You have to make it to first grade before you can move on to the second grade...When you start getting weaned off the milk, God will start sharing some meat with you...
And that is the work of the Holy Spirit...The Holy Spirit will open the scriptures for you...He will show you the scriptures that fit together...
If we chose not to believe, or we change the scripture, God will stop us dead in our tracks...
We will then have to turn to a religious tradition or a new revelation of scripture that takes the place of what we can't get out of the scriptures...
Another way the Holy Spirit works with and in me is while I'm driving down the road...I can not count the times where I checked my mirrors and started to pull into the other lane when I have heard from somewhere deep inside of me the word 'NO'...I would jerk the wheel back as a car zoomed by me in the lane I was about to cut into...Praise God for that...
The Holy Spirit may work other ways within Christians but those are a couple of my many experiences...