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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

No one has given you authority to interpret scripture. Your fanciful and tendentious comments are mere private speculations, impertinent and unfounded.


80 posted on 06/02/2013 5:19:22 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Romulus; Greetings_Puny_Humans
>> No one has given you authority to interpret scripture.<<

Of course He has.

Acts 15:8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness by granting them the holy Spirit just as he did us. 9 He made no distinction between us and them, for by faith he purified their hearts.

We have the same Holy Spirit given to the apostles to give us understanding. Catholics have been told they do not have that same Spirit by the cult of the RCC in order to maintain control over them. It’s time to “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues”.

82 posted on 06/02/2013 5:43:23 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Romulus; Greetings_Puny_Humans; CynicalBear; metmom; boatbums
No one has given you authority to interpret scripture.

This assertion is by no means new, so, as i have asked RCs before, is your position that that unless one has the sanction of those who are the instrument and steward of Scripture and Divine revelation, having historical descent, then they have no authority?

95 posted on 06/02/2013 7:40:45 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: Romulus
No one has given you authority to interpret scripture.;


Maybe I'm misinterpreting it, but the Bible does.

The Beareans were praised for searching the scripture and not simply take even the Apostle Paul at face value.
Acts 17:10-11:”And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

The Bible states that the Bible is not to be left to any private interpretation, but used by believers.
I Peter 1: 19-20 “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.”

We are commanded to use the word in our daily lives to bring them into line with what pleases our Lord and Savior.

Psalm 119:9 “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.”
This is a wonderful chapter on God's word in the Bible and no where in the chapter are we told that we need to have scripture interpreted for our consumption. Instead we can go directly to the One who is the bread of life.

Indeed God even calls us to him by saying in Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

Jesus commanded us to keep his word, not any interpretation of His Word. John 14:23-24 “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.”

110 posted on 06/03/2013 7:48:55 AM PDT by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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