BiggAndyy said:
That's what my post was hinting towards. Rather than allow for us men to be wrong on occasion and ask for or seek forgiveness, we run and declare ourselves our own little spiritual island. A self contained fiefdom complete with our own version of God, theology, and self sanctimonious rancor against everyone else for now being as "enlightened" as they are.
I can understand your perspective but just when was the last time you heard a paster express he has in the past, or is now having a greater understanding of the word, in other words expressing a greater depth of the word, that some verses "understanding" may conflict with what he may have said in the past. It is few and far between so your self sanctimonious theory is subject to pasters as well. The problem is I have never heard one of notability make such a statement.
I don't understand the concept that If you choose to not be formally joined at the hip with a church but still listen to church teaches you are colored as being self contained or self rightist or in the extreme out of the body of Christ. I not being overly critical it's an observation that pasters teach for years as though the were inherently infused from the beginning knowing the full context of God. Then you also have the problem of paster looking like a false prophet in some instances If they do have a change of heart or revelation in understanding.
Lastly the original church apparently had a provision for interaction from the body, that is something completely unheard of today.
I have meet with pasters and spoken of questions, apparent contradictions, that I have heard thew-out the years. What I have discovered is sometimes to satisfy my curiosity and get questions answered I have to search else where. Partly because many pasters only teach unquestionable truths laying the foundation if you will.
Or are literally following a prepared extensive teaching diagram, similar to the guides that public teachers are given.