You’ve been on these threads for years and still are surprised that the Church wrote and canonized the scripture and not the other way around?
Where exactly did Jesus say his priests should conceal crimes?
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GOD tells us what is true. All claims to truth must be compared to what the Lord teaches, not any human institution.
If an org teaches contrary to Jesus and the Apostles, it is no church.
Yeah we're surprised....because that isn't how history records how we got the canon.
Men, moved by the Spirit, wrote the various books of the Bible we have.
The early ekklesia received these. For the NT....only the 27 were received and accepted by the early church.
And what's really interesting none of the following are in any of those writings:
perpetual virginity of Mary
the Immaculate Conception
Mary recognized as "mother of God"
no admonitions to pray to Mary or rely upon Mary for salvation or answered prayers
no papacy
no clerical celebacy
no Mass as practiced by Rome
no penance
no confidential confessions as practiced by Rome
no priesthood
no mandate to use Latin as the only language for "official" documents of the church
and on and on and on and on......
Yes, I've heard many Catholics espouse this view. But this is the first time I've ever heard a Catholic say that "the Church does not go by what is and what is not in the Holy Scripture". It certainly gives Catholics an opportunity to make up any religion they want-which seems to be what they have done.
I will add that it is refreshing, if not rather disappointing, to hear a Catholic admit that the Church doesn't accept the Holy Scripture as inspired. My how far they have wander from the early church fathers who revered the scriptures as "God breathed" and "inspired". It only underscore how far the Catholic Church has fallen away from the faith.
I guess it doesn't matter what God says about murder or homosexuality since the Catholic Church can choose to accept or reject it. But at least you still can confess your sins to one another-as if that will do any good.