It's one book written by one man.
Unlike the catechism of the RCC which all Catholics are required to believe.
And as pointed out, the RCC catechism is over 200 pages longer than the Bible itself.
Sounds funnier every time I type it.
Anti-intellectual types should avoid Catholicism.
Legalisms, getting the lawyers, uh, I meant scholars, involved, scribes and pharisees.
That's the metaphor to which Aquinas is referring, you know, not any nonsense propagated by the likes of Joseph Smith.
If the Israelites were "gods" (literally, elohim, gods, judges, holy ones, saints) by virtue of receiving the Law through the mediation of angels, how much more are Christians exalted by receiving the sacred humanity and divinity of Christ through the mediation of the High Priest himself?
2 Peter 1:4 says that we are partakers in the divine nature. I've never heard a Calvinist sermon on that verse. Have you?
Judges were appointed in ancient Israel and we know this to be true from such an example as 1 Samuel 8:1-3. Appointed, rather than annointed, but still they were endowed with a power that the common Israelite was not. The Psalm has nothing to do with ordinary believers becoming or likened in any way to God. In fact, reading the verse that was cherry-picked, in context, clearly tells that men are unreliable, and only God can judge fairly.