You asked me what my solution would be to the interpretation issue. That is why I proposed my faith. Though I am here to debate, I think this is the only designated forum for such.
Well, OK. You say not to make the Bible the arbiter of doctrine but go by what your church tells you instead.
How is that any different from taking one interpretation of Scripture and telling yourself you'll just go with it? The only difference is that you DEEM the Pope to be infallible--even though you know that he is thought by his own church to be infallible
ONLY under rare circumstances that have not occurred in your lifetime. I could just as easily deem the world's greatest Bible scholar's interpretation of Scripture to be infallible...if that's what cinches it for you.
You see, the process is essentially the same.
All you are proposing is deferring judgment about Scripture to a third party and then calling that party infallible, knowing that he is not.
But you had to decide which other person to defer to! Other people made a different decision there. The problem you think exists with
Sola Scriptura has merely been removed one additional level from the source...with no increase in certainty. You don't have to decide what Scripture is saying, but you do have to decide whose interpretation of it you will take!
Alright, lets just go through some of the bible versus I proposed and leave it at that (unless you have more to say). Jesus says who hears you hears me, and teach all nations, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and the Advocate will teach you all things. What is your interpretation on these versus?
I think it means what it says there. Who hears Jesus, teach all, bound in heaven, Holy Ghost will guide the church. Do you think it means something other than that?
Also, please elaborate on the authorities you agreed were given to Peter.
Peter was given a role to play; that was to open the world to the Gospel. That is what "keys" do--open. And of course we know that he did just that on Pentecost Sunday when he gave a miraculous speech that resulted in the mass conversions of the first followers who had not been with Jesus on his travels.