NOPE.
That’s a grossly absurd and inapplicable analogy to what Proddys observe.
Proddys observe God’s Word and the results of God’s Word on the one hand
and
on the other hand an centuries long bureaucratic poer-mongered magicsterical mangling of God’s Word and the results of that.
It’s not all that complicated.
“Proddys observe God’s Word and the results of God’s Word...It’s not all that complicated.”
No, it’s not complicated.
Protestants think themselves competent to interpret scripture correctly. They put themselves on the same plane as—or even above—all the greatest minds of the past 2,000 years, when even the greatest minds stood on the shoulders of earlier giants to advance our understanding.
I was remarking the other day that the ancient Greeks almost had it right when they said, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
A more correct interpretation of the phenomena they observed would be, “Whom Satan would destroy, he first makes mad...and stupid, and arrogant.”
Dear Lord, guard me from the kind of arrogance that makes ordinary men think themselves equal to the truly great and the truly holy.