[Iscool]

So then you do believe that God dealth with and communicated with John Smith, John Smyth, Zwingli, Michael servetus, John Calvin, Wesley, Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyers, David Koresh, Mary Baker Eddy?

You forgot to add your popes...

That's the wonderful thing about God and the Bible...

God says to 'study the scriptres', and 'rightly divide the word of truth'...God says to search the scriptures to see if these things are so...God says prove all things...

The Scriptures are the only standard...NOT the councils of your religion...We don't go to your religion to prove all things...We go to the Holy words of God...

And like some in your list, your religion doesn't pass the Biblical muster...

[Quix]

INDEED.

[metmom]

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

It doesn’t say anything about any other way, especially nothing about tradition. Scripture is all one needs to live the Christian life.

[Cronos]

no, actually, if you do read The Bible and Church history, you will see that popes do NOT have their own personal interpretation of scripture, unlike So John Smith, John Smyth, Zwingli, Michael servetus, John Calvin, Wesley, Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyers, David Koresh, Mary Baker Eddy, yourself presumably etc.

As you say "The Scriptures are the only standard" -- you forget to add that this is NOT your own personal interpretation, or else, why do you, John Smith, John Smyth, Zwingli, Michael servetus, John Calvin, Wesley, Benny Hinn, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyers, David Koresh, Mary Baker Eddy have such different interpretations?

Because your own personal, individual interpretation, and all of the others who have personal interpretations are egotistically wrong.