There is nothing which prevents me from reading the Bible and coming to my own conclusions regarding a passage of scripture. What is prohibited is that I sit down and come up with some sort of esoteric interpretation which opposes 2000 years of teaching, much as Luther, Calvin, and the other deluded Reformers did, and then try to insist that my interpretation and not that of the Church is correct.
As far as I know, the Church allows for various eschatological interpretive grids: ammillenialism, Preterism, Post Millenialism. You could even be a Premillenialist I suppose, if you were that stupid as to be a Catholic and believe that your Church is the "whore of the book of revelation" as most premillenialists do.
We were having a fairly decent discussion on the other thread. Why all of a sudden you gotta be a wise acre?
