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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans; St_Thomas_Aquinas
STA.... Which Protestant interprets the Bible infallibly?

G_P_H...A better question: Which Catholics interpret the Bible infallibly?

The answer to both of those questions is NO ONE ..That is why Protestants study and read.. and write commentaries.. struggling to understand what God is telling us in His word

The apostles had spent years in the direct presence of God.. yet after the resurrection Jesus had to point out to them that the OT was all about HIM...

One day He will show us the meaning of all of the scripture..

Until then we look through a glass darkly

141 posted on 04/24/2015 9:24:35 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7

So God’s left us in the dark?


142 posted on 04/24/2015 9:34:23 AM PDT by piusv
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G_P_H...A better question: Which Catholics interpret the Bible infallibly? The answer to both of those questions is NO ONE ..

You've just admitted that Protestants can't interpret Scripture infallibly.

You also claim that the Catholic Church can't, either.

But WE believe that the Catholic Church is the Church that Christ founded AND that it can teach infallibly.

"...which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth." --St. Paul

"If he won't listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or tax collector." --Jesus

The Church has the power to "bind and loose." What does this phrase mean?
"Binding and loosing is an originally Jewish phrase which appears in the New Testament, as well as in the Targum. In usage to bind and to loose mean simply to forbid by an indisputable authority, and to permit by an indisputable authority." --Wikipedia

"Under Queen Alexandra, the Pharisees, says Josephus ("B J." i, 5, § 2), "became the administrators of all public affairs so as to be empowered to banish and readmit whom they pleased, as well as to loose and to bind." --Jewish Encyclopedia

Jesus affirms the teaching authority of the Pharisees (their power to "bind and loose."
“The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 Therefore whatever they tell you to observe,[a] that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do."
Jesus, to Peter:
"And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Jesus to the Apostles:
Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
The Catholic Church can trace Her origin to Apostolic times. Lutheranism can be traced back to Luther. His church has no divine teaching authority.
144 posted on 04/24/2015 9:57:56 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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