There is certainly disagreement within Catholicism over scriptural interpretation. But compared to the fragmentation in protestant hermeneutics, Catholicism is still fairly monolithic on the fundamental issues.Are you saying Catholic Bishops and Catholic Theologians don’t disagree on passages of Scriptures and interpertation? I’m sure there is a wide range of allowable views on the doctrine of predestination and many other areas in Scripture. Heck, Augustine is still considered a Catholic Saint, and many Catholics today do not believe like Augustine in the areas of predestination and his view of free will.
No & YesDo Protestants have a higher view of Scripture than Catholics. And do Catholics have a higher view of the church than Protestants?
Both view it as the word of the Lord. How can you have a higher view than that?Do Protestants have a higher view of Scripture than Catholics. And do Catholics have a higher view of the church than Protestants?
It may surprise you to learn that Catholics also accept the material sufficiency of scripture…we simply reject the formal sufficiency of scripture which Protestants claim but cannot prove.Maybe Protestants simply have a higher view of Scripture since it is sufficient and complete revelation for the Protestant.
Do you believe that revelation ended with the death of the last Apostle? If so, please provide chapter and verse, please.I never could understand how the Catholic Church can have a growing ongoing source of revelation in sacred tradition and not consider new sacred tradition being new revelation from above.
The Church does not ADD to the faith; however, we come to understand that faith more deeply over time. This is development. For example, the early Church did not understand the Trinity or the incarnation as thoroughly as we do today.How can the Magisterium add to the Faith that was once for all delivered to the Saints as revealed in Scripture?
It would be self-serving if the Church merely asserted these things about herself; happily, the Lord Jesus Himself promised that the Church would be protected from error.It is a self-serving position to make a claim that the Church cannot error, or is protected from error in the areas that is claimed that it cannot error.
Well, the Catholic Church will excommunicate those who fall outside the bounds of what is allowable to be Catholic. Therefore, it does not appear to be fragmented like Protestantism. However, if we define Protestantism by the historic doctrines of the Protestant Reformation, then the orthodox Protestants churches are quite united indeed on the fundamental issues. If you throw out the unorthodox Protestants and excommunicated unorthodox Catholics in our comparision of both Christian communites, both Orthodox Catholics and Orthodox Protestants are similar in the unity of essentials of the faith in their respective groups.There is certainly disagreement within Catholicism over scriptural interpretation. But compared to the fragmentation in protestant hermeneutics, Catholicism is still fairly monolithic on the fundamental issues.
The question involved a “higher view”. We surely must agree on what that means in order to answer the question with some intellectual honesty.
The sufficiency of the Scriptures as compared to the incompleteness of biblical revelation makes our views of Scripture quite different.Both view it as the word of the Lord. How can you have a higher view than that?
Let’s follow this claim and thought. Could you please supply a Scriptural case for what you are saying.It would be self-serving if the Church merely asserted these things about herself; happily, the Lord Jesus Himself promised that the Church would be protected from error.