Why Leo’s Ecumenical Goals Must Fail
Believing in one God doesn’t mean everybody gets to build their own. That’s the fatal flaw of Protestantism: inconsistency.
God changes from one church to the next in the Protestant mix-up, whether it’s the preacher’s interpretation or an individual member of the congregation.
Sola Scriptura is a call to confusion because interpretation is up for grabs. Scripture without context is like a man lost in the desert who happens upon a map stuck on the stalk of a yucca.
Such a man could use the landmarks on the map to locate his position, assuming he knows how to read the map, but he doesn’t have any idea which way to go because he’s lost.
There’s an X on the map that he thinks is a town, but he doesn’t know what kind of town it is—big or small, abandoned or thriving—because he lacks context. It might be Sin City inhabited by godless drug dealers, or it could be a haven for lost travelers.
He doesn’t know because he’s never been there.
He doesn’t even know if the map is accurate because he found it on the trail.
He has an idea of where he’s at because the landmarks appear to be correct according to his interpretation of the map’s symbols. But there’s no way for him to know for sure if the squiggly line on the map that snakes through a series of triangles is a road through the dunes or an arroyo leading nowhere or worse.
There’s nothing for him to do but make his way toward the X. If he doesn’t, he will soon die of thirst.
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