from another source on comment 261 here http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2013/03/jason-stellman-tells-his-conversion-story/
Talk all you want about “the Spirit of God”; everybody claims the Spirit of God for what they confess; what matters here is the method by which they discern that it’s the Spirit of God talking, not just their own opinions. Thus everybody uses “exegesis and hermeneutics which draw upon reason, evidence, tradition,” yet by such means, many reach doctrinal conclusions opposed to those of many others. Who has the authority to say that their conclusions are Spirit-certified? Catholicism answers that question clearly, with reference to the authority of the Magisterium as the authentic interpreter of Scripture and Tradition. To the extent your paradigm answers it, it does so only with an academic magisterium. Having spent a good portion of my adult life in academia, I am not impressed with that. If you put any random selection of people with terminal degrees in theology into a room together, you’ll get as many opinions as there are people in the room.
see also http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2009/06/play-church/
and article and comments ;http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/whose-lens-are-you-using/
Interpretation of Scripture
"Who has the right and authority to say what Scripture means? Those from whom it was handed down, i.e. the Apostles, and the successors of the Apostles, and the particular Churches governed by the successors of the Apostles. The Scriptures belong to the Church, and are rightly known in and through the Church, not through the private interpretation of every Joe Blow who thinks he knows better than the Church what the Scriptures mean."
from comment 95 here
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