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To: RobbyS
Do you expect me to believe that your opinion has any more authority than mine, for instance?

Nope. My opinion is my own understanding. But none of us here (on this planet) have authority of our own. Nor is there any establishment which owns that authority. It is the Spirit who sanctions.

You appeal to the Scriptures, but then claim that your interpretion is inspired.

I claimed no inspiration. Did I say I was a prophet? But sure, I appeal to the Scriptures. There is no other eternal thing to measure by.

How so, when so many nother have looked at the same words are read them otherwise? But God has revealed the truth only to you?

If I have any advantage, it is because I prefer the pasture to the fold - I have no traditions to defend, so if I see more clearly on some thing, I would attribute it to that. But I find myself in reasonable agreement with many. Not on all things, by any means, but on enough.

But I think you claim to know the truth not as an individual but as the member of a chorus. You sing with them but say it is a solo.

LOL! If you knew me better, I don't think you'd say that - I am an equal opportunity offender... Even my own denomination. The difference is between the cathedral and the bazaar - Protestants tend not to get as offended, nor offended as easily, because they have less claptrap to protect, and are used to operating as Bereans - the debates are never done, nor will they be until David's Own is seated on the throne in Jerusalem.

And that's OK. It is preferred to bowing to old men in fancy dresses, and holding their absurdly non-Biblical edicts as inspired... Just because THEY say it is. Talk about a chorus.

2,738 posted on 04/23/2011 6:09:46 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: roamer_1

Of course you have a tradition to uphold. It is based on a theory that dates back to the Reformation but which take several different forms as time wears on. The form you chose seems to date from the clash between the “New Lights,” and the “Old Lights” during the Great Awakening.


2,742 posted on 04/23/2011 10:52:40 PM PDT by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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