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Solo scriptura also undermines the legitimate ecclesiastical authority established by Christ. It negates the duty to submit to those who rule over you, because it removes the possibility of an authoritative teaching office in the Church. To place any kind of real hermeneutical authority in an elder or teacher undermines the doctrine of solo scriptura. Those adherents of solo scriptura who do have pastors and teachers to whom they look for leadership do so under the stipulation that the individual is to evaluate the leader’s teaching by Scripture first. What this means in practice is that the individual is to measure his teacher’s interpretation of Scripture against his own interpretation of Scripture. The playing field is leveled when neither the ecumenical creeds nor the Church has any more authority than the individual believer, but Christ did not establish a level playing field. He did not establish a democracy.

Skimmed the article from the link and this jumped out at me. Thought it was worth posting.

God bless.

"...Christ did not establish a level playing field. He did not establish a democracy."

As a monarchist, and as a Catholic loyal to the Magisterium, I obviously agree. Christ is the King of the Universe, not its president, and His Holiness is the Prince of the Church, not its chairman. My fellow American Catholics need to realize that in matters of faith and morals vox populi is most definitely not vox dei; quite the opposite, in fact.

Democracy sucks -- and as a way to govern Christ's Church it's an evil failure as well. The mainstream Protestants have voted themselves into irrelevance; let's learn from their mistakes instead of repeating them.

Divine Hierarchy bump.