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Yes and He works through the apostles' successors.
ECT THE PRACTICAL NECESSITY OF AN INFALLIBLE & AUTHORITATIVE INTERPRETER
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Yes and He works through the apostles' successors.
Jerry Shugart
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Anyone who is born of God can understand the Scriptures:
"But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God" (1 Cor.1:23-24).
Those who haven't been born of God are incapable of know the things which are freely given to true believers:
"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God" (1 Cor.2:12).
Those lacking the spirit of God deny that a believer is "justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Ro.3:24).
These same people deny that eternal life is a "gift" that comes upon all believers:
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Ro.6:23).
False religions teach that people must do "works" of one kind or another in order to receive to things which are described as being "free" and a "gift."
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[h=1]Where Does Someone Get the Authority to Interpret the Bible?[/h]
Jerry Shugart
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The Scriptures can be understood by anyone with an open mind and that is exactly why Paul addressed his first epistle to the church at Corinth WITH ALL THAT IN EVERY PLACE CALL UPON THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD:
"Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours" (1 Cor.1:2).
If all of those who call on the name of the Lord Jesus cannot understand the Scriptures then Paul certainly wouldn't address this epistle to them.
Rome doesn't want anyone to be trying to understand what the Scriptures teach because anyone who does that will soon realize that what Rome teaches is contradicted by the Scriptures.