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Jun 20 11 6:41 PM
GHSTHA wrote...No one on this board disputes that claim that the Scriptures are the infallible, written word of God.
That was not the point at all. The point is that God has so designed His living word (every jot and tittle) to be self-teaching and as it teaches us we abide in Him as the one and only infallible teaching authority, not the church. To have the faith of Christ as our infallible teacher in respect to any man or men as in ECF theology is to violate the first commandment. Catholics make themselves the teaching authority which rises above God’s authority, as is written by comparing themselves by themselves to themselves and not comparing the spiritual words of Christ to the spiritual words of Christ, they have in effect done just that….. Usurped the teaching ministry of the Holy Spirit by assuming its authority to teach us is in respect to sinful men, and not the Holy Spirit itself.
GHSTHA wrote...Yet you want us all to "think" that you and the rest on the non-Catholics on this board have the infallible interpretation of the Scriptures.
That is not what I would agree on. As a Christian I would desire you hear God through the hearing of faith. The idea that you think others are claiming to be the infallible interpreter of scriptures would seem to be your strawman that you use to avoid trusting the God of scripture as the final authority, we are aware of that wile of the devil. I suggest the Holy Spirit alone is the infallible interpreter of Scripture. We hear God by and through the faith of God in accordance to the law of faith. It’s not who should we venerate and puff up against in regard to another man’s opinion of scripture, the manner of spirit of those who do hold men’s opinions as a higher law than that of scripture are reveled as those of the antichrist camp, as those who would seduce us into somehow believing we do need a man to teach us…… obviously because they think the Holy Spirit cannot.
1Co 4:6 And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
Although we do learn of God as He alone teaches us, we learn in men not to venerate any man as if they were in the place of God, and therefore in doing so take the name of the Lord in vain.
Looking at the verse above it sure seems that Catholics refuse to learn what the Spirit of Christ was saying. They in fact do just the opposite, again and again, and see no evil in doing so as if they were an authority of themselves.
To be taught of infallible God is to be taught of God, as that which scripture declares as the “things of God”. To be taught of fallible men is to be taught of men as the “things of men”, we cannot serve two masters, a distinction between the two (things of God, things of men) must be made.
GHSTHA wrote...The Pope is extremely limited in the area of Papal infallibility.
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