i’d love to see you point out the gross errors so we can discuss them.
you miss the point of the article. The Church was given authority to teach, we have the duty to listen.
can you name one instance in the NT when someone decided on their own by reading Scripture what the Scripture meant?
Again, sounds like a cult to me. Just sayin'.
And YES, ..full disclosure, I am Lutheran Missouri Synod. (^ :
What you are asking for is something that doesn't happen ~ that is, that a single individual coming up with his own variant reading or understanding suddenly becomes leader of a million member church.
No, a single individual doesn't do that. Christian theology is such that it takes a group to work its way through the materials.