Agreed. I’m not a scholar, but I rely on those who are, and those for whom it was their native language.
This is why tradition is so important, and everyone relies on tradition for interpretation in one way or another. The argument isn’t so much between scripture and tradition, but between tradition and tradition.
The argument isn’t so much between scripture and tradition, but between tradition and tradition.
That is true - we all have to come to grips with what we think the original texts mean. Everyone, who is not a scholar themselves, must rely on someone else to some extent to form their understandings of a particular passage. Catholics have full confidence in official church positions and feel that the pope can’t be wrong when he makes an “official” statement. Protestants follow the Berean example and don’t necessarily take any fallen man’s opinion about scripture as absolute.