[daniel1212]

Dear XZINS. I acknowledge you have free will to apprehend or reject any specific point of Biblical contention and I suspect you will understand that I can in no way concede any point made by a protestant about the Bible because the plain and simple fact is that if a protestant understood the New Testament, he would be constrained to convert to the Catholic Church

You have me confused with someone else, and if not, then you are very wrong. I seek to go where the truth leads via Scripture, and thus differ with others on that basis, and would become Catholic if that was best warranted.

Which, as a former weekly RC CCD teacher, and lector after becoming profoundly born again, i find far from the case, Scripturally and experientially .

In contrast to me being compelled to disallow any points of doctrine due to commitment to a particular church, faithful RCs who have no other choice but to argue for Rome. Objectively analysis in seeking to determine whether RC doctrine is true is disallowed, nor is RC doctrine dependent upon actual warrant from Scripture, only that it does not contradict it, but which is according to her autocratic interpretation.

[Vermont Crank]

Dear Daniel. I apologise. Your are right. I intended that comment to be directed to XZINS.

I disagree with your analysis which is easily disproved by the New Testament itself when it illustrates a Divinely-Designed Hierarchy with authority not a democratised free-for-all in which each and every individual has been given authority to decide for his own self what Scripture means.