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If Protestantism is true, then there is no infallible interpreter of
the Scriptures and thus no interpreter can be accepted as authoritative. God
did inspire the Scriptures to be without error, but He did not provide an
authoritative, infallible interpreter for the inerrant Scriptures, leaving us
with only conflicting, error-prone opinions of people. The Scriptures must
therefore be deemed to be sufficiently clear for most people on all important
matters of the faith. Since, even between the founders of Protestantism, no
accord could be reached on what Jesus meant at the Last Supper, then the proper
meaning of “body” and “blood” must simply not be significant, and the Reformers
were quibbling over trifles.
This, generally, is the issue that brought me
into the Church: amid all the conflicting interpretations of the Bible, how do
you know who's right? How, in fact, can there be so much difference among
Christians on what the Bible says? It
became an impossible issue to get around, and I tried!
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