[CynicalBear]

>>Now if this authority existed in the past it must continue to exist today.<<

It never did exist for the Catholic Church. They just deluded a lot of people into thinking it did. God entrusted His word to the Jews NOT the Catholics. The Catholic Church adding the apocrypha did not make them scripture.

[Petrosius]

God entrusted His word to the Jews NOT the Catholics.

Then I take it you reject the entire New Testament as the Jews do?

[terycarl]

It never did exist for the Catholic Church. They just deluded a lot of people into thinking it did. God entrusted His word to the Jews NOT the Catholics. The Catholic Church adding the apocrypha did not make them scripture.

Yeah, the Jewish version of the new testament is very revealing......the Catholics were the ONLY Christians around for 1,600 years hence it was they who wrote, edited, saaved, the Bible as we know it today....there were no protestnts around in 1143 to assist the Catholics....