Elegant words. One can hear the note of melancholy in them. That’s why it’s more important than ever to note:
This was and never will be about power. It’s about Faith and the assent to the Truth. It’s the fallen human nature that portends that this is an issue pertaining to human supremacy.
The personnel as you call them are integral in the salvation of the world. Keeping the gospels free and unchained from the monstrosities of error. To lead souls to Christ and preserve them from the heresies of the world. To lead us to all Truth just as Christ promised through the Holy Spirit.
The only time the gospel has been chained is when it is held hostage by those who seek what the want from it for their own sake. They look at the gospels not unlike Narcissus looking at his own reflection. Seeing only what they want to see. And in attempting to derive communion with God through text they deny the actual communion that can be had with the entirety of the Mystical Body of Christ around them. Denying the supernatural Faith. Denying the presence of Jesus Christ: Body, Blood, Soul & Divinity in the Holy Eucharist. Denying the sacraments that bring us God’s grace.
Whole swaths of the Body of Christ amputated by such people because it interfered with their own private understanding of things. A failure to assent to Faith and belief for the supremacy of private rationalization.
I don’t deny that God works outside of “non-Roman” contexts. But I have to wonder about the mind that feels compelled to delineate the works of God in such a fashion. It’s not pride. It’s gratitude. A deep sense of gratitude to God for leaving with us a Church to help us find our way to Him in this world. It is the Church that is the salve for our fallen human nature. As a function of reason we have questions which is the Church’s responsibility to answer through those “personnel”. Given the imprimatur of infallibility by the Holy Spirit on the most important issues of Faith and Morals.
We all can’t have the perfect faith of the evangelical. Although one has to wonder if it truly is faith because the evangelical proclaims his or her faith with such certitude as to make it seem that they are speaking of some immutable law of physics. If that’s the case, then how can they call it Faith?
People are but channels for the Holy Spirit’s continual direction.
If someone fails to be a good channel, then someone else is placed in position.
However, those who wrote the bible were specially appointed.
Meeting Jesus has a distinct effect. Unlike laws of physics, people do have a range of choice of how they react to Jesus, but ultimately the Shepherd successfully herds to heaven those willing to believe, by means of one way or the other. The sheep can mill about, but can’t bolt again from the fold.
As for melancholy, it’s sadness that people can’t hear the Lord better. Much grief follows as a result.