That is one of the many errors of advocates of Scripture being “the” authority who try to separate the Church from the Bible.
The men who wrote the Constitution, the founding fathers, are all dead. To be sure the US Government and its laws are staying in line with the principles, spirit, and rules on which the US was founded, one primary means to do that is to hold ourselves accountable to the written document, the Constitution.
Ah! And can a private party interpret it for itself apart from the government and overrule the government with the Constitution?
The Supreme Court has reversed itself and contradicted itself many times. The President of the United States and the executive branch does whatever it wants and tells Congress whatever it wants. Congress is dysfunctional and doesn’t have a clue what they are doing.
You have other questions that need tending
.Isaiah, if you’re going to be consistent about intellectual property rights, then, since Jewish practioners of Jewish law wrote the OT all by themselves, wouldn’t the Jews own the rights of interpretation alone for the OT?
I have pulled out of that other thread. Experience on CAF has shown that threads on Scripture, church authority, etc. go on endlessly and forever with no main point but to hear everyone argue.You have other questions that need tending
Have no idea what you are referring to.
Yes, and the weeds and wheat will grow together until He comes.
And in both cases “authority” can make wrong choices.
Weren’t Jesus and His Apostles Jewish?
I think this it what it boils down to.
Yes, I was there once… until I got tired of running away from the Truth and the facts staring at me.
So you mean not one human body has taken their spots as successors? And no…we are accoubtable to the written document and the governing body which is divided into to three bodies.
They did belong to the ecclesia.
So, the Catholic Church claims ownership over all religious publications written by Catholics? I didn’t know that.
Yes, all things belong to God. The earth and everything in it is the Lord’s.
I’m not “separating” the Scriptures from the Church. I and Protestants believe that they are linked, but that their relationship to one another must be understood correctly. The Scriptures are not accountable to the Church. The Church is accountable to the Scriptures.
When it comes to matters of the Faith, I trust that God will protect His Church. He will keep His Word. Sadly we are peccable people and the mistakes of men should not reflect on Christ’s Church.
I’m not “running away from the truth and the facts.” However, I’m on a Catholic Forum and find no pleasure in trying to argue with or persuade people to accept what I believe. I will state what I believe on threads that ask, and then I will read other responses. I don’t feel like going on and on arguing disputed points and facts.
And Jesus never said the church would be without problems. Then why would he even bother to select 12 men?
Of course other people have taken over the governing spots after the deaths of the founding fathers. But, to be sure these successive people are (theoretically) staying true to the principles of the founding fathers, we have the Constitution in written form.
Which PROceeds after the governining body. You are placing the cart before the horse.
Then, AWM, how do you know with any certainty that the Gospel of Mark is inspired? It was the Church that recognized it as Scripture, and if the Church erred, how do you know that this is not an example of an error she made?
Sorry,but that is historically false and biblically incorrect.
Good for you, Isaiah, because that’s part of something you must profess as a Catholic. I’m not being sarcastic; I sincerely mean “good for you”. If you’re going to be a Catholic, be one that abides by your church’s rules and articles of faith. You do have to take it as a matter of faith, though, not fact, that that is how those verses from the Bible were meant to be understood.