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teaching authority is the Holy Spirit along with the scriptures...

If the Holy Spirit is available to all Christians, then explain why there are inreconciliable differences between sects of Christianity. Does the Holy Spirit lead some sincere Christians astray? If that were so, it would hardly seems to live up to Christ's promise to be with us until the end of the age. But of course it is not so: Christ gave teaching authority to his Apostles, who passed their teaching authority along to their successors, and that unbroken line continues today as the Catholic Church's Magisterium. Those who reject the Church's infallible teachings of Scripture, reject Christ who gave authority to the Church to teach His Word.

If the Holy Spirit is available to all Christians, then explain why there are inreconciliable differences between sects of Christianity. Does the Holy Spirit lead some sincere Christians astray? If that were so, it would hardly seems to live up to Christ's promise to be with us until the end of the age.

Jesus did not say He would keep anyone from error...You guys again add words to the scripture...

Jesus say He will lead but that doesn't mean everyone will follow...

Jesus was talking about His Spirit being HERE until the end of the church age...To guide us...He wasn't talking about hanging with your religion to keep it from error...He there for all of us...You chose your pope instead and hope (or assume) he's listening to the Holy Spirit...

I'll tell you this once again...The JW's have created their own little Green Bible...The Mormans have their Joe Smith Bible...The Catholic have their tradition...The Presbyterians and Anglicans and Greeks and Catholics are all pretty much the same bunch and don't put hardly any stock in the scriptures....

And then you have the individuals and priests and church leaders who think they can come up with some 'new' gem in the scriptures by correcting the hundreds of translators who already translated more than 200 bibles...

Amo 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Amo 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

And don't tell us about your religion...Catholics are all over the map as well...Your church may proclaim to teach many things but it enforces none of 'em... You can ask ten different Catholics what your church teaches and you will hear ten different things...

Christ gave teaching authority to his Apostles, who passed their teaching authority along to their successors, and that unbroken line continues today as the Catholic Church's Magisterium. Those who reject the Church's infallible teachings of Scripture, reject Christ who gave authority to the Church to teach His Word.

No He didn't...Jesus gave his teaching authority to the original apostles and then to the scripture...We are the ones who pass that authority along to other sinful men, NOT God...