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I’m a Protestant but as someone who has and is seriously considering becoming catholic(and this has been over the years), I’m sympathetic to the argument that the Bible must have a foundation in which to be interpreted.
Else you get people quoting verses and developing their own hermeneutics to get the results they want.
This doesn’t do anything but lead to never ending circles. Where people come to wildly different interpretations as to what passages mean.
So you have someone interpret it for you. The problem Protestants will respond is...what if the magisterium is wrong? Of what if tradition is wrong? It’s a fair question. Obviously if it was wrong then Christians for 1400 years weren’t actually Christian or had a wrong understanding of their own religion. And given there are people who argue the church went off the rails circa 200 AD, this is a frightening thought.
And regarding the above-it’s very easy to come to wildly different interpretations, then get frustrated and say “you know what this must not be divinely inspired because we’re disagreeing and thus maybe well it’s all not true.”
Protestantism does lead to atheism in that sense. Protest the church, and eventually you will protest the Bible.
Else you get people quoting verses and developing their own hermeneutics to get the results they want.
This doesn’t do anything but lead to never ending circles. Where people come to wildly different interpretations as to what passages mean.
So you have someone interpret it for you. The problem Protestants will respond is...what if the magisterium is wrong? Of what if tradition is wrong? It’s a fair question. Obviously if it was wrong then Christians for 1400 years weren’t actually Christian or had a wrong understanding of their own religion. And given there are people who argue the church went off the rails circa 200 AD, this is a frightening thought.
And regarding the above-it’s very easy to come to wildly different interpretations, then get frustrated and say “you know what this must not be divinely inspired because we’re disagreeing and thus maybe well it’s all not true.”
Protestantism does lead to atheism in that sense. Protest the church, and eventually you will protest the Bible.