Let’s see...Each of our bodies is a “temple of the Holy Spirit”. Proverbs 4:23 states:Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Yeah...each of us is our own Pope. Why? Because popes, priests, pastors, praise and worship teams, and even pious old mommas can’t always be around to mind us when we are out and about and in public. We Christians are to learn to conduct our private selves in ways that our religious selves could never farthom.
You have just asserted that there is no TRUTH.
Your body being “a temple of the Holy Spirit”, doesn’t give you the mind of God.
It means your life is not your own, as it is a gift of God.
It is an admonition against suicide.
The apostles were quite clear that they could not know the meaning of Scripture unless they were taught.
We must be taught according to a standard and not something we make up as we go along.
The point of learning is to carry that knowledge with us.
Your pitiful excuse that we can’t have authority follow us around to direct us, is simply your rationalization for making your own rules.
What G Larry meant was the propensity of individuals to reformulate their own personal doctrine based on partially read excerpts — witness the unitarians (at the beginning, now they’re completely ga-ga)