Church Authority on Faith and Morals

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And that is how it should be. But should not the church as the proper interpreter of the bible also be the authority on anything it speaks about, such as economics, politics, history, creation etc
 
Thanks, I was a bit taken back by his post. But others have said they have trouble understanding my question so it might very well be me.
 
I could not agree more. If the church is founded by Jesus it should have the say over anything secularist tell us. For example, on origins.
 
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And that is how it should be. But should not the church as the proper interpreter of the bible also be the authority on anything it speaks about, such as economics, politics, history, creation etc
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Not at all. The Church does seek to address moral, ethical, and even philosophical or social matters where these disciplines raise them, but it is not the Church’s province to be “the authority” on economics, politics, history, or other secular sciences.

As far as creation is concerned, we do know that God created everything, but we do not know all of the particulars, the “how” of it all. Some forms of evolution could be true — certainly short-term micro-evolution is true (natural selection of traits based upon environment, e.g., proliferation of species that are better able to hide from predators, or inheriting of traits that are more conducive to survival, because those creatures that lack these traits don’t survive) — or all things could have been created more or less the way they appear to us now. There are some phenomena in nature that do not seem to have “come together on their own” — they point towards some kind of supreme creative intelligence. The existence of a rotary engine of sorts on the tail of a bacterium is one example.
 
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Is that how Rome as defined that passage? because I missed it.
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I wouldn’t know. I’m not Catholic.
Your initial question made a distinction between the Catholic Magisterium and Scripture. I can’t speak on behalf of Catholics but I can offer what I know about the Bible and no one so far has pointed out that particular passage the Apostle Paul wrote about Scripture.
This is why not all Protestants believe in a 6-day creation that led to a 6000 year old world despite using Scripture alone as the sole authority on religious matters.
 
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By why does not the church if God and the bible do? it seems they would continue the theme.
 
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such as economics, politics, history, creation etc
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The Bible is not a text book on any of these topics. It talks about these things as a frame for the faith and morals that are reflected in our politics or economics, about history because certain lineages were vital to ancient people. Genesis tells two different creation narratives, that shows us that the importance is that God created from nothing and our relationship to God before/after the fall, the importance is not how many hours there were in the first day or if the earth was created before or after the sun.
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