>>lay” people have the same authority as Peter and the Apostles<<
Yep!
“Acts 15:8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness by granting them the Holy Spirit just as he did us. 9 He made no distinction between us and them, for by faith he purified their hearts.”
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False CB.
Proof, repeated for the umpteenth time, Private Judgment is heresy. And do not give one interpretation and follow up to correct, stating another interpretation. Imagine, as if no one noticed.
God the Holy Spirit does not guide each person reading
Scripture into their own interpretation of Scripture.
Of course not. Duh! He gives us His interpretation as He wants us to understand.
1 Corinthians 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
2 Corinthians 1:22 Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Now stop disrespecting the “Spirit” we have been given for understanding and interpretation.
1 John 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. 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.
Don’t continue to let the RCC “seduce” you.