I absolutely have my own personal interpretation of Scripture.
Nor is it forbidden in scripture.
On the contrary...
This is required, if you are to fulfill God’s command, “love God with all your mind.”
But of course “my own personal interpretation of scripture” is shared with hundreds of millions of believers around the world and inhabiting eternity.
I'm aware of that. I think all protestant have their own personal interpretations; that's why there are so many sects.
Yes many have there own opinion of God’s Word, including Satan that is not God’s Truth.
Faith is both a relationship with God as well as engagement with the truths that He reveals.
We must trust in God and follow His Truth and not man’s false truth.
Too many reject God’s revealed Truths and follow the hypocrisy of other false opinions.
Scripture is clear about the evil of lying (Sermon on the Mount). Lying is the most direct offense against the truth.)
My own personal interpretation of Scripture when God says, *Thou shalt not murder* tells me that abortion is wrong.
I wonder why that’s a problem for some people.
I’m glad you both have such high regard for Martin Luther. Maybe you will believe him in his identity of the Antichrist?
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
“We are convinced that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist.” Luther’s Werke, v. 2, p. 167
“We here are of the conviction that the papacy is the seat of the true and real Antichrist…personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist.” L. Froom, Prophetic Faith of our Fathers Volume 2 (Washington D.C: Review and Herald, 1948): 121
“You should know that the pope is the real, true, final Antichrist, of whom the entire Scripture speaks, whom the Lord is beginning to consume with the spirit of His mouth and will very soon destroy and slay with the brightness of His coming.” Luther’s Werke, vol. 8, p. 554
“nothing else than the kingdom of Babylon and of very Antichrist…. For who is the man of sin and the son of perdition, but he who by his teaching and his ordinances increases the sin and perdition of souls in the church; while he yet sits in the church as if he were God? All these conditions have now for many ages been fulfilled by the papal tyranny.” Martin Luther, First Principles, pp. 196-197
“I am practically cornered, and can hardly doubt any more, that the Pope is really the Antichrist… because everything so exactly corresponds to the way of his life, actions, words and commandments.” Martin Luther, Schriften volume 21a, column 234, as translated in George Waddington, A History of the Reformation on the continent volume 1 (1841)
“Already I feel greater liberty in my heart; for at last I know that the pope is antichrist, and that his throne is that of Satan himself.” Martin Luther, as quoted in D’Aubigné, book 6 chapter 9
“We are not the first who interpret the Papacy as the kingdom of Antichrist…He (John Purvey in 1390 AD) rightly and truly pronounces the Pope “Antichrist” as he is…a witness indeed, foreordained by God to confirm our doctrine.” Martin Luther, Commentarius in Apocalypsin (reprint)