[pgyanke]

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.

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).

[MeganC]

“The history of God’s people did not end with the Canon of Scripture”

I agree. And Protestants don’t presume to live in the 1st Century as proof that we know history moves on. Yet the Word is eternal and sufficient in its completeness and we pay attention to what was told to us in Rev. 22:18/19

History may not have ended then, but the Canon of Scripture did. That said, any words of any church leader that contravene Scripture are then false because their authority properly derives from Scripture. Yet, in this topic, we have some who place the authority of the RCC in primacy to Scripture and that’s simply wrong.