[RegulatorCountry]

What makes you think God’s written word can be contradicted by any other communication purportedly from God? It’s very odd to me, for Catholics to claim authorship, even ownership of the Bible but to so casually dismiss it when inconvenient.

Either it’s scripture or it isn’t. Either your church was in error then, or it’s in error now, when in contradiction. That is avoided by adhering to the written word and testing all things against scripture. We’re even told to do this, by scripture. By scripture you and I both accept as divinely inspired.

Are you a Constitutionalist? Do you see what has happened over the course of less than 250 years as a result of allowing learned men to interpret and make pronouncements that violate the intent and the spirit of the written document? Is what we have now even recognizably Constitutional in many instances? No, it’s not.

That is the danger in veering from the written word.

[Natural Law]

"What makes you think God’s written word can be contradicted by any other communication purportedly from God?"

If you think that Sacred Tradition contradicts Sacred Scripture you are misinterpreting one or both of them. Everything Protestantism prattles on about in regards to their fidelity to the written Word falls apart when the differences in interpretation result in many thousands of conflicting doctrines that are not only unique to whom ever is doing the interpreting, but are heretical and often so bizarre as to not be recognizable as Christian doctrines. The danger, my FRiend, is in the self interpretation of the written Word.

Peace and blessing be with you.

[metmom]

It’s what happens when you exchange the truth about God for a lie and worship and serve the creature rather than the Creator.

Satan has gotten more mileage out of *Did God REALLY say....* than any other tactic he’s tried. Doubt the veracity and integrity of the Word and look what happens; deception all the way around. People just haven’t learned from Eve yet.

[stfassisi]

Do you see what has happened over the course of less than 250 years as a result of allowing learned men to interpret and make pronouncements that violate the intent and the spirit of the written document? Is what we have now even recognizably Constitutional in many instances? No, it’s not

That is the danger in veering from the written word.

That is a good analysis,dear friend.

With that in mind people ought to give major credibility to the early Church fathers who lived closer to the time Christ walked the earth and who saw the closest thing to anything of original Scripture and interpreted Scripture by clear consistent belief in the 7 Sacraments

What many people believe since the reformation is a pluralistic sea of anything like early Christianity.