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To: HarleyD
Scriptures cannot be infallible.

Thank you very much. Your's is not a unique view in the Church. I hope some will realize how much error Rome is teaching these days and how far the Church has moved from it's foundation.

I guess that you may not be paying attention to what I'm actually saying. The Church interpretation of Scripture is infallible. Scriptures are not infallible because they can be and are used to formulate and justify, for example, the Cathar dualism heresy.

2,572 posted on 02/01/2011 6:07:50 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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To: MarkBsnr
The Church interpretation of Scripture is infallible. Scriptures are not infallible because they can be and are used to formulate and justify, for example, the Cathar dualism heresy.

But this isn't what the early church fathers taught nor what the Church says it teaches. Scripture is infallible. All other writings are not so. You could argue that the Church is the only ones who can correctly interpret what the infallible scriptures says. But then that begs the question as to how they can come up with their various notions of Mary, the Eucharist, relics, etc. when there is none of this in scripture.

The fact is the Catholic Church has included works of other authors that was not considered infallible-relying upon documents subject to error, to justify erroneous positions. It would be the same as if Augustine quoted Jerome giving it the same status as the infallible scriptures. This would never have occured to them.

2,855 posted on 02/02/2011 9:02:15 AM PST by HarleyD
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