(Where's the 'shrug my shoulders' emoticon?)
I'm not sure about the understanding of who's attacking and who's defending or of who's feeling needs. I was responding to this post of yours that responded to my exchange with Dr U: I didn't feel any need to engage with you.
You claim there is one Truth that you correctly understand from reading the Bible. Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican and non-Evangelical Christians ALSO read the Bible and have their own interpretations and ALSO claim to correctly understand the Truth (and ALSO with Biblical support), and have huge bodies of scholarship to prove them right and you wrong. My point is that your position grants that this must be so - they are appealing to the Bible, which you do acknowledge as authority. Individual interpretation of the Bible means that everyone can claim to have that single Truth. You acknowledge that some may be wrong. I can say that it happens to be you, and your position supports this. You cannot appeal to the very thing that we are proving you wrong in to prove us wrong. It is fundamentally illogical. If we are both reading a document (say, an eviction notice served on us) that seems to have contradictory information, we cannot appeal to the document to prove us right or wrong. We must take it to a judge. The document itself cannot be the arbiter of apparent contradictions in the document. Otherwise, our court system would be out of work (which, while arguably a very good thing, is not the reality).
