“:So your argument is that the writers of Holy Writ possessed assuredly infallibility whenever they spoke universally on faith and morals, as per Rome’s criteria, and that the supreme magisterium of Rome is speaking as per Divine inspiration on the level of the inspired writers? “
No. I believe that God’s chosen men were used as vessels to speak with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to write God’s actual Word as it appears to us in the Bible.
I believe the Rome’s Magisterium is but fallible men and that they have occasionally veered way out of line when it comes to what the Bible teaches.
Thus I am not a Roman Catholic; because I hold to the Bible as the ultimate guide as to our faith and practice, not to the Magisterium’s teaching as the ultimate guide to our faith and practice. This is, in my opinion, the giant divide between Catholics and Protestants - all other doctrinal divisions flow from it.
Thanks; i should have transposed the names i was addressing the post to.