How come it speaks different things to different people? If what you're saying was true and everything in the Bible was self-evident without the need of interpretation, everyone would be in agreement about the Christian faith and doctrines and there wouldn't be 1000+ denominations.
The Living Word of God is Jesus (John 1). See? Even in this instance you can't escape interpretation.
Am I about to find out you are in some fringe cult
The "fringe cult" is literally the historical apostolic Church that Jesus established and that has kept the living tradition intact for 2000 years - the Orthodox Church. I believe and practice what the early Christians did. What you're saying here (Sola Scriptura and such) is relatively recent development at the time of the Reformation. You basically accept there was Christ and His apostles, and then some 15 centuries without real Christianity and Church before Luther came and spawned the various Protestant denominations that rejected all authority besides the Bible (never mind that the Bible canon itself was compiled by the ecumenical councils of the Church, i.e. "man's authority", which destroys the whole position).
How come it speaks different things to different people? If what you're saying was true, everyone would be in agreement about the Christian faith and doctrines and there wouldn't be 1000+ denominations.
The Living Word of God is Jesus (John 1). See? Even in this instance you can't escape interpretation.
Am I about to find out you are in some fringe cult
The "fringe cult" is literally the historical apostolic Church that Jesus established and that has kept the living tradition intact for 2000 years - the Orthodox Church. I believe and practice what the early Christians did. What you're saying here (Sola Scriptura and such) is relatively recent development at the time of the Reformation. You basically accept there was Christ and His apostles, and then some 15 centuries without real Christianity and Church before Luther came and spawned the various Protestant denominations that rejected all authority besides the Bible (never mind that the Bible canon itself was compiled by the ecumenical councils of the Church, i.e. "man's authority", which destroys the whole position).
How come it speaks different things to different people? If what you're saying was true, everyone would be in agreement about the Christian faith and doctrines and there wouldn't be 1000+ denominations.
The Living Word of God is Jesus (John 1). See? Even in this instance you can't escape interpretation.
Am I about to find out you are in some fringe cult
The "fringe cult" is literally the historical apostolic Church that Jesus established and that has kept the living tradition intact for 2000 years - the Orthodox Church. I believe and practice what the early Christians did. What you're saying here (Sola Scriptura and such) is relatively recent development at the time of the Reformation. You basically accept there was Christ and His apostles, and then some 15 centuries without real Christianity and Church before Luther came and spawned the various Protestant denominations.