Ben Zartman
Puritan Board Junior
We each have the responsibility to search the Scriptures and see which interpretation is in line with them. I'm open to hearing and responding to challenges to the systematic theology I've embraced. I'll never respond to a challenge with, "Well, the Confession says it so it must be true." Rather, I'll seek to bring passages from the scripture to bear on it. The writers of the Confessions weren't claiming authority--they were distilling what the bible had to say about different topics and summarizing them.I've been told, "I'm placing authority in the Scriptures as systematized by the Roman Catholic magisterium / councillor Bishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church. etc."
It always boils down to authority and who has the power or right to interpret God's revelation.