“That does not make sense to me, perhaps you can flesh it out a little bit. How could Israel be ‘full of error’ yet preserve the Word of God? Same goes with the Catholic Church.”
I guess I could flesh it out for you, but I can’t state the case any better than the Old Testament already has, so just go peruse it a bit. Flip to any one of the prophets and you’re sure to hit an indictment of Israel within a few paragraphs.
“If you are saying what I think you are saying I answered that already, the Church is Holy because Jesus Christ is Holy, not because of the sinful men of Israel or sinful Catholics.”
Then we should be in agreement. The idea that the Catholic church’s preservation of the Word can be used as evidence that the Catholic church didn’t err is nonsense. God preserved the Word, whether it was through the Catholic church, or through Israel, and that is a testament to His perfection, not to the perfection of some institution or group of men.
Except I believe that God also preserves the Catholic Church from teaching error. I believe the Catholic Church is the Church instituted and protected by Christ. It has always been made up of sinful men and some remarkably holy men.
My question is still the same, who is right? There can only be one truth or no truth.
I believe that the truth, the fullness of the faith, is deposited in the Catholic Church. Everything else is a watered down version of the truth.