OR (and it must be considered, fairly) both are wrong, and YHWH said what He meant, and meant what He said, and WROTE IT DOWN so that there could be no confusion.
OK, there’s another alternative: The Holy Spirit (AKA the voice in one’s head) vouchsafes private interpretation.
Rather, we are *not* to follow the majority in anything. We are to follow YHWH and do right.
Does that mean we cannot follow Jewish institutions? Sure we can, where they do not confound Moses. If they claim an authority greater than Moses to change Moses, we are not obliged to follow. In fact, we are obliged by Torah to do the opposite. The authority is in Moses.
Does that mean we cannot follow the institutions of the Church? Sure we can, where they do not confound Yeshua (and therefore Moses also). If they claim an authority greater than Yeshua in order to change Yeshua, we are not obliged to follow. In fact, we are obliged by Torah to do the opposite. The authority is in Yeshua.
Deuteronomy 17
8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose.
9 And thou shall come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days; and thou shalt inquire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment.
10 And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence, which they shall declare unto thee from that place which the LORD shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee.
11 According to the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which they shall declare unto thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
12 And the man that doeth presumptuously, in not hearkening unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die; and thou shalt exterminate the evil from Israel.