With all due respect to the Monsignor, Jesus had words for the Hebrew scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees, the men who interpreted the scriptures in Jesus day. He wasn’t too kind. They persecuted Him for his Word.
I’ll trust in Scripture, Grace and Revealed Truth and not in men, testing all in the light of the revealed Word of God.
The scriptures, were indeed, compiled and completed as we know from early in the 1st century, there are thousands of copies of the OT and NT texts dated well into the late 1st century to not accept that the doctrines of salvation by faith alone and holy works as a result of being made the righteousness of God in Christ as evidence of Salvation to think that Christian’s were without both verbal and written edification from the day of Pentecost until now.
Then again, if you want to enfranchise an organization, claim that there is one singular source of he product-that’s called business, and exclusivity is the hallmark of such endeavor.
Protestantism and Orthodoxy all can and do/have fallen into the same pitfalls.
The singular work of God is to believe that Jesus is the Christ and that by that faith, you HAVE eternal life and salvation....
But all Protestant churches are led by mere men.
The Catholic Church is led by Jesus Christ who founded it on the Apostles to carry on his work.
Then I take it that you, as well as all Protestant ministers, will refrain from interpreting Scripture for others and leave Catholics to interpret it for themselves in accord with what the Church has always taught. The truth is that Protestants are just as bound to their own traditions of interpretation as any Catholic.
I am a Catholic, and I must say that yours is the most reasoned comments from a Protestant that I have ever seen on one of these threads. Thank you. So refreshing to see someone defend beliefs contrary to that of the Catholic Church without attacking the “evil” RCC. God bless.