Protestants hold up the Word of God as written, true. In such things as the Ten Commandments those Words were literally written by the Hand of God. We also hold up the fact of the Word made flesh and we reflect on the words of Jesus and His Apostles, as well.
And we stop right there.
Some Catholics, as is witnessed in this very topic, go into heretical beliefs when they place the authority of men above the authority of God and Jesus. To say that the RCC is of greater authority than God or Jesus is quite the statement of hubris.
Protestants would not have the Word of God, had not the Church protected it for 1,500 years and very carefully hand copied it. Many monks devoted their lives to preserve the Word. You have a complete misunderstanding of the Church. It is not some man made organization, but the Body of Christ on earth, given the authority directly from Christ to add to it all that should be saved. I am amazed at the number of people on this site who pull a verse here and there and come up with a whole different doctrine than any Christian believed for 1,500 years ( i.e. baptism, the Eucharist, sola scriptura, apostolic succession, once saved always saved, the canon of the OT, etc. etc. ) All false doctrines, all started in the 15th century. The funny thing is these same people are horrified because Joseph Smith says the Church was in apostacy and needed to be “restored” in the 19th century.( he was only 4 centuries too late ) Well, Jesus said the gates of hell would not prevail against the Church and He would be with it always. So when you throw Church doctrine overboard because sinful men were not practicing what they preached, you have the fruit....30,000 denominations all claiming the title of Christ, all started by a man not named Jesus. Some are closer to the truth than others ( Lutheran, Anglican ) some not so much ( Baptist ) and some totally deceived ( LDS, JW, SDA, CS, oneness ) This is modern day Babylon.
And we stop right there.
EXACTLY! Thank you for stating the conundrum so clearly!
Christ is seated on His Throne. His Spirit has come into the world that we not be orphaned. And yet... the Protestant position is to put hands over ears and deal only with what was 2,000 years ago. The Holy Spirit has come into the world to grow our understanding of the Heavenly realities... and He has not been quiet. The history of God's people did not end with the Canon of Scripture... how could it? Here we are!
Some Catholics, as is witnessed in this very topic, go into heretical beliefs when they place the authority of men above the authority of God and Jesus. To say that the RCC is of greater authority than God or Jesus is quite the statement of hubris.
I would appreciate it if you could point those posters out to me... they would very clearly be in error. No creation can have more authority than its creator... that is axiomatic. I have never seen any Catholic on here or anywhere claim the Church has more authority than God or Jesus. The Church simply have His Authority that He gave to Her (Matt 18:17-20 et al).