Stop it....
you don't have a clue what I have studied. Is that what this conversation has come down to? Throwing out baseless accusations that have
ZERO merit or evidence? How sad
The men of the Catholic Church, Baptist Church Lutheran Church etc. etc. "studied extensively" also and
they all came to a different conclusion than you on various passages from scripture. What makes you right and all of them wrong? Out of a graduating class of 100 doctors some got all A's and others got average or below average. However, they all got degrees. Just because you "studied extensively" it still doesn't make you the sharpest tool in the shed or the doctor I would go to for medical advise.
Stop thinking so highly of yourself and come back down to earth with us common folk.....
Did your 'extensive studies' lead you to the same conclusion as the men who
walked and talked with the Apostles; Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch or Polycarp of Smyrna? I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that
you didn't come to the same conclusion as them. Their letters containing their interpretation of scripture mirrors The Churches interpretation of scripture.
Who is more reliable on their 'extensive studies'?
Them, or you?
Mary