If God the Holy Spirit wanted to make everything absolutely clear in Scripture, He would have done so.
He did not.
You find fault with Him??
“ The issue of “Take Eat this is my body” and “those who do not eat my flesh have no life” is certainly “essential”, no?
No... not the way you understand it by setting two different passages together as if they are one thought.
“ In that case, it tells me that the concept of the “indwelling spirit is present in all to lead to the Truth” is false.”
Sorry, but I’ll stick with what the Holy Spirit inspired in Scripture, and leave you in charity to seek.
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Likewise those of us who believe Christ is present Body and Blood in His sacrament will stick with what the Holy Spirit inspired inscripture and leave you to seek. We all see through a glass darkly.
I would think it would be a heresy to claim the HS purposely made Scripture unclear.(Where in the Bible does it say that?) But it does have to be studied and not every Tom, Dick, and Harry can and should attempt to interpret. The CC came before the Bible. The Bible was written for the CC, comes from the CC, and is to be interpreted only by the CC in its teaching authority that is protected from error.
Any interpretation outside of the CC is not with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and often is erroneous. So in that sense I do agree with you that no one can infallibly interpret scripture. No one outside of the Church’s teaching authority that is. And because there has been attempts to interpret outside the Church, theological anarchy has ensued starting with the very first “reformers”. The fruits? thousands of man-made churches claiming to have conflicting Truth. This fact is all I need to know. As such I do not want to have any part with these fallible man-made churches.