I never said I was perfect now did I. But I can test the spirits of what people tell me..
You can;t do that if you hold yourself only to an eng;ish text.
The english language is flawed. If the language is flawed then you expect an interpretation to that language to be flawed.
Literally the word would be twice and large if they accurately and correctly completely interpreted the word..
{baptism is not even an english word it is a transliteration of the greek. And because they di dnot translate it. We have so many false teachers misapplying baptism and many applying water baptism to a false gospel of works.
So, you are saying that God, who is the Word, created English as a flawed language and then decided to place His word primarily in a flawed language (English) in the last days of the gospel being preached?
So that only those who are educated in the Hebrew and Greek can receive His unadulterated message?
Personally, I think that those who are educated are more inclined to reject Jesus; while the common people might hear Him gladly.
So, I would never entrust my interpretation of the Bible to an amateur Greek or Hebrew scholar (not even myself).
I believe that the Holy Spirit is more able to illuminate the scriptures to us when we read them in our own language.