No, I "allege" that Jesus said that to everyone who is born again of the Holy Spirit.
Matt 22:14
2 Peter 1:3-4, Hebrews 11:33, 2 Corinthians 1:20, Romans 4:20-22.
I'm saying that this is inevitable...everyone interprets things through the filter of their own mind...you cannot change that.
So if that is relativism then I suppose that relativism cannot be avoided...because everyone has a mind.
Personally, I think that it is better to study the Bible itself and filter that through my mind than to study what men have said about the Bible...which they have filtered through their minds. I would rather have the word of God than the words of men.
Inasmuch as that building contains a gathering of people who believe in Jesus.
"not every person in the building can have the truth"...
do you concede that this is also true within the Catholic Church?
It has everything to do with it. Because we determine what is false doctrine by comparing it to the sound doctrine found within the holy scriptures. I think that you agree with me that the holy scriptures are the word of the Lord; because they were written by men of the church; and to you the church has all authority.
So my question to you is, what happens when the holy scriptures (written by men of the church) contradict things that are taught by the Catholic Church?
Are the men who wrote the holy scriptures no longer considered to be authoritative as men of the church?
If they agreed with everything Catholic, they wouldn't be Protestants.
I'm certain that among certain people there will be disagreement as to what is an essential or core doctrine regarding salvation. However, if we take the scripture at face value, we can determine from the holy scriptures that at least two to four things are essential:
1) The Deity of Christ (John 8:24).
2) That Jesus died for our sins according to the scriptures, was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
3) That Jesus is the Lord (1 Corinthians 12:3) and the Son of God (1 John 4:15, Isaiah 9:6).
4) That salvation is by grace through faith, and that not of ourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9).
I believe that Protestants are in agreement concerning these essentials; if anyone is not in agreement with these and yet tries to pass themselves off as Christian, they are considered to be a cult by mainstream Protestantism.
So, in answer to your question, there is an organization within Protestantism just as there is organization within the Catholic Church.
It is not organization that we are against, but we are definitely against certain false doctrines that are purported by the Catholic Church....and we know that they are false because we are a thinking people and check what is preached by the Catholic Church by the holy scriptures...and we find that when we put Catholic doctrine to the Berean test, it is found wanting.
