:*[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+2%3A5&version=RSVCE 1 Timothy 2:5 "There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+7%3A23-26&version=RSVCE Hebrews 7:23-26 "He is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A14&version=RSVCE 1 John 4:14 "The Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world"]; <br>—[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+2%3A1&version=RSVCE 1 Timothy 2:1 "I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+4%3A16&version=RSVCE 1 Timothy 4:16 "you will save both yourself and your hearers."] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James+5%3A20&version=RSVCE James 5:20 "whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul"]<br>—Is there one mediator, intercessor and Savior, or many mediators, intercessors and saviors?
:*[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+3%3A11&version=RSVCE 1 Corinthians 3:11 "For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Peter+2%3A4-8&version=RSVCE 1 Peter 2:4-8 "The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1%3A17-18&version=RSVCE Colossians 1:17-18 "He is the head of the body, the church"]; <br>—[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A20&version=RSVCE Ephesians 2:20 "built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16%3A18&version=RSVCE Matthew 16:18 "And I tell you, you are "Rock", and on this rock I will build my church"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+21%3A14&version=RSVCE Revelation 21:14 "And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb"]<br>—Is there one foundation, or many foundations?
:*[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+3%3A10-18&version=RSVCE Romans 3:10-18 "There is none righteous, no, not one"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+3%3A23&version=RSVCE Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"]; <br>—[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+2%3A1&version=RSVCE 1 John 2:1 "Jesus Christ the righteous"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+3%3A7&version=RSVCE 1 John 3:7 "He who does right is righteous, as he is righteous"] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+25%3A34-40&version=RSVCE Matthew 25:34-40 "Then the righteous will answer him..."]<br>—The Bible says without any qualification that ''no one '' is righteous, so how can ''anyone '' be righteous, including Jesus? But if Jesus and the [[saints]] ''are'' righteous, how can the Bible say "''no one is righteous, no, not one''"?
:*[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+5%3A12&version=RSVCE Romans 5:12 "death spread to all men because all men sinned"]; <br>—[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+12%3A7&version=RSVCE Matthew 12:7 "if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice', you would not have condemned the guiltless."]<br>Are any sinners guiltless?—or are the guiltless ''not'' sinners?
:This kind of reasoning is devoid of [[intelligence]].
:These all appear to '''[[Contradiction|contradict]]''', ''absolutely''—but only when the consistent tradition of the interpretation of the body of Christ, the church, the "mind of Christ" handed down from the time of the apostles, is rejected, in favor of independent, individualist interpretations formulated according to the unguided intellect of [[Ignorance|ignorant]] Bible readers concentrating on the apparently "simple, plain and obvious meaning of the words" of the text, or according to scholarly theologians, and researchers who have divorced themselves from the past and are standing apart from the whole community of the body of Christ. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+2%3A11-16&version=RSVCE 1 Corinthians 2:11-16 "we have the mind of Christ"]. [https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Sirach%203%3A24 "Their own opinion has misled many" Sirach 3:24] (see [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+3%3A16-17&version=RSVCE 2 Peter 3:16-17]).
:Conservative Christian historians and [[Christian apologetics|apologists]] are mindful of this statement by [[Martin Luther]] from the year 1521:
::"...there is no one of the heresies which have torn the bosom of the church, which has not derived its origin from the various interpretation of the Scripture. The Bible itself is the arsenal whence each innovator has drawn his deceptive arguments. It was with biblical texts that [[Pelagianism|Pelagius]] and [[Arius]] maintained their doctrines. Arius, for instance, found the negation of the eternity of the Word—an eternity which you admit, in this verse of the New Testament—''Joseph knew not his wife till she had brought forth her first-born son''; and he said, in the same way that you say, that this passage '''enchained''' him. When the fathers of the [[council of Constance]] condemned this proposition of [[John Huss]]—''The church of Jesus Christ is only the community of the elect'', they condemned an error; for the church, like a good mother, embraces within her arms all who bear the name of Christian, all who are called to enjoy the celestial beatitude."<br>—[http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/luther/lutherbyluther.html#secondnarrative Life of Luther (Luther by Martin Luther)(law2.umkc.edu)]
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