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God has preserved the teachings of Christ the corner stone and the apostles and prophets (the writers of the New Testament), and this serves as the once-for-all laid foundation of the church. The church becomes the “pillar and support of the truth” (1Timothy 3:15b), but the church does not continue to be the ongoing giver of new, binding revelation. That function ceases.

Thank so much for clarifying what so many have danced around until now.

You see the revelation of Christ and His Church as having stopped 2,000 years ago. Going back to my analogy of the Church as the Bride with the Bible as a love letter from the Bridegroom... you think we have only the letters to go by anymore. There is no continuing relationship and revelation from the Bridegroom to His Bride.

To me, that suggests that we have been orphaned and all we have left of our progenitors is their memoirs. But Christ said He would not leave us orphaned. We have the Holy Spirit... does the Spirit not provide the revelation of God or is His Work subordinated to what was done 2,000 years ago?

We have the Holy Spirit... does the Spirit not provide the revelation of God or is His Work subordinated to what was done 2,000 years ago?

There are those who will say "the Holy Spirit guides me to the correct interpretation of Scripture" and yet deny that the Holy Spirit does so with the Church; and if two individuals claim the Holy Spirit guided them to their interpretation of Scripture, but the two positions are mutually exclusive, what then? One of them must be wrong.

[ There is no continuing relationship and revelation from the Bridegroom to His Bride. ]

Except for the Revelation of Jesus Christ(Rev) you would be correct..
This book speaks fully to "the Bride"..

And, by the way, ONLY the bride can begin to understand it.. To; All others this book is some kind of gibberish.. But there many that pretend to understand it.. Understand parts of it or make something magical out of it..

You see the revelation of Christ and His Church as having stopped 2,000 years ago. Going back to my analogy of the Church as the Bride with the Bible as a love letter from the Bridegroom... you think we have only the letters to go by anymore. There is no continuing relationship and revelation from the Bridegroom to His Bride.

To me, that suggests that we have been orphaned and all we have left of our progenitors is their memoirs. But Christ said He would not leave us orphaned. We have the Holy Spirit... does the Spirit not provide the revelation of God or is His Work subordinated to what was done 2,000 years ago?

Catechism Of The Catholic Church
66 "The Christian economy, therefore, since it is the new and definitive Covenant, will never pass away; and no new public revelation is to be expected before the glorious manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ." Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries.

Ah the magic of Catholic Teaching!

There is no new revelation but as time goes by the heretofore "secret" revelations will be made known to us.

Thus, for example, the "revelation" of the Bodily Assumption Of Mary was unknown to us for nearly 2,000 years.

See how it works? I wonder why it was kept secret for all those years. I don't understand the necessity. Do you?