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Direct Answer Based on Chuck Pike’s teaching, what’s at stake is whether Christianity is a “finished” apostolic faith to be guarded, or an ongoing stream of new truth that can override Scripture—because the “you” determines who receives the promise of being guided into “all truth.” Daily Christianity would shift from preserving what was “once for all” delivered to either trusting private impressions or trusting a church institution’s later developments.

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• He says everything “hinges on…who is the ‘you’,” and a wrong answer can land you “far, far away” from the early church.
• He lists three options: “you” = the church (Catholic approach), “you” = every individual reader (common Protestant assumption), or “you” = “the apostles who were there when he’s speaking.”
• He argues individualizing it creates contradiction: sincere readers “are all being led to different conclusions.”
• He says Catholics use it to justify “progressive revelation” and “adding new teachings over time…not found in Scripture.”
• He says the early church saw it as limited to apostles, meaning “the apostles would have the complete faith and nothing would ever be added to it.”
• He applies this practically: churches get “blown off course” when they think they’re “more enlightened than the apostles.”