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I think there are two main hang ups a lot of Protestants will have. First, the notion of comparing "mortal interpretation" with "divine will". The problem with this complaint is that all reading of the Bible is a mortal interpretation anyway. Having an official interpretation doesn't make...

It runs completely counter to Protestant thought, but it is rather factual that a great many important passages have a wide variety of interpretations, and of course those one happens to dissagree with are always guilty of "picking-and-choosing". So it's not unfair to say that, in an organized...

No, but I do honestly believe that most protestants haven't and that most people who contribute to the perpetual fracturing of Protestantism cannot readily be described as theologians. The pressure to encourage people to read the works of the saints came after the Reformation. It was part of...

I don't think the core of the point is that "we should all kiss the Fisherman's Ring". Rather the point to me is that religion without a bedrock of unshakable structure is pretty weak. If you compare the number of schisms among Christian sects that don't encourage their members to interpret...