The only "authority" is Jesus Christ....He IS the Word made flesh....and he is certainly able and has protected His Word for Centuries regardless of the Catholic Leadership's efforts to keep it from the people.
“When a RC asserts such it usually can be counted on to mean it is truly not in keeping with the Bible”
You mean the same Catholic document that Catholics compiled, codified, and safeguarded for centuries so protestants and everyone else could know the Word of God. Or is there another Bible I’m not familiar with? Just as God worked through men to write individual books of inspired Scripture, He worked through the authority of the Catholic Church’s Bishops to determine for us what books belong in the Bible.
All Christians must admit that their confidence that the Bible is Sacred Scripture – the inerrant and divinely inspired Word of God – stems from the authority of the Catholic Church. God made Scripture holy…but we know this because He revealed it to us through the Catholic Church.
The vast majority of extant texts out there are from the 8th-10 Centuries...They come from the Majority Texts which your religion acknowledges are not Catholic texts...The majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls which were written Centuries before your religion was invented agree with those 10th Century, non Catholic texts...
You need to peddle your false bible history to Catholics, not on a public forum where people know better...
The only "authority" is Jesus Christ....He IS the Word made flesh....and he is certainly able and has protected His Word for Centuries regardless of the Catholic Leadership's efforts to keep it from the people.
So once again you trot out this polemical assertion, but you never have affirmed the logic that gives this assertion any weight. That being, is your argument that being the instruments and stewards of Holy Spirit mean that such are the infallible authorities on what it means, and thus wilful dissent from such is rebellion against God, and invalidates any claim to authority.
Clearly affirm or deny for once, esp. as your present your church as being the choice of geniuses.
Makes ME kinda wonder just WHO 'worked through' the men that determined that THESE guys should have been pope...
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
Yup; He sure REVEALed the Catholic church to us all right!!
