[metmom]

So which has the greater authority?

The Church or Scripture?

Is the church in authority over Scripture giving Scripture its authority?

Or is Scripture in authority over the church giving the church authority?

[daniel1212]

So which has the greater authority? The Church or Scripture? Logically it has to be the autocratic Romanized church, since she presumes that Scripture and Tradition are only authoritatively consist of and mean what she says. And according to Rome's interpretation (decree), only her interpretation of Scripture and what qualifies as Tradition can be right in any conflict, which she invokes to support her as being right in any conflict. To avoid the charge of circularity thus appeal to Scripture merely as a historical document by which one can discern that their church is the only entity that can tell us that Scripture is the word of God. But if one can discern this church as the one true infallible one then they can also discern that she is not, thus Caths argue we must first submit to her as the infallible interpreter so that we will know she is the infallible interpreter.