Matthew 24
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
If every religion has a different claim then the only thing I can do is to see for myself what the scripture said.
For instance one religion may say that Jesus actually sweat blood, I went to scripture and found that it does not exactly say that at all.
I see no reason not to get help on understanding scripture but I am not going to put my life in the hands of some one unless what they say is word for word backed by scripture.
“I see no reason not to get help on understanding scripture but I am not going to put my life in the hands of some one unless what they say is word for word backed by scripture.”
I largely agree.
Once in my first year of seminary, a fellow student asked the prof a question. The prof answered that if the student was a third year student, he would answer it, but since he was in his first year, he encouraged him to ask in the future. I share that because in my third year, I’d already reached a point in my understanding of how the scriptures fit together, that I didn’t need to ask.
In the interim, God provides teachers to keep us from error and help us climb the rungs. In the end, we still search the Scriptures to “see if these things are true.” Some things we must set aside for the time until later.