Sure, but they were still sinners. They still had their faults. John even said, "If we say we have no sin the truth is no in us."
People are prone to bring in false doctrine. That was the central reason the Chruch fathers gave us the Bible-to protect the inspired writing from the uninspired.
He gave us a Church to interpret the scriptures correctly.
He did NOT give us uncountable scripture interpretations and want us to be divided because of it.
:::People are prone to bring in false doctrine. That was the central reason the Chruch fathers gave us the Bible-to protect the inspired writing from the uninspired.:::
But these are the same Church Fathers, nearly 400 years after Christ died, that are scornfully dismissed and sometimes vilified by the Reformed when they write contrary to the doctrines of Calvin. How can they give you the Bible, when none of their other writings, including that on heresies, are accepted?