So the Spirit tells you that you are to hold the tradition of your religion as equal or higher authority than the scriptures???
The scriptures say to 'test the spirits'...How do you test this Spirit you lay claim to???
Your position is not one that I see other Catholics professing...You must be a former Protestant...
One of His truths, which the protestant rejects, is that Jesus left His Apostles with authority and with Peter as their leader. As their guide, He sent the Holy Spirit.
Jesus sent his Spirit as a guide to ALL Christians...
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
So that's where the light goes out for you guys...IF you are a born again Christian, you have the same Spirit within you that lead the apostles to all truth...
You have the same Spirit within you that your magisterium claims to be led by...
The same Spirit is within you that is in your priest when he claims to turn wine into blood and a cracker into flesh...
The same Spirit within you that is within your priest when he pardons your sins...(Why doesn't your priest confess to you???)
We have Scripture, which is His inspired word, as a guide, but we also have the Church and both are protected by the Spirit.
Absolutely not true...Does longevity mean protection by the Spirit??? Of course not...The Holy Spirit was given to LEAD you to truth...That doesn't mean anyone of you, or us follows the leading...
We are living in the domain of Satan...
Joh 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Protestants who believe that they and they alone can infallibly interpret Scripture and doctrine are taking upon themselves an authority that is not given them.
Interpretation has nothing to do with authority, but power...And it's not so much interpretation as it is believing...
Joh 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
And what is that power??? The Holy Spirit...We don't need authority to know the scriptures, we need power...And we have it...
Joh 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Joh 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Joh 14:19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
We Christians have any and all of the power that your 'Church' claims to have to understand the scriptures...Of course your religion says otherwise...And, without any evidence of such...
They come up with this unBiblical, unGodly bunk that only they can understand the scriptures...I can't believe you guys, at least those of you who appear to be saved fall for this stuff...
But I have the evidence...It is the word of God that was taught to the Apostles and disciples who wrote it down to be preserved by the Holy Spirit...
I never said it was the same Spirit.
Tell me, when you were looking for these verses which you use, did you happen to see the one by St. Paul about how the one Spirit gives different gifts to different people?