If the Catholic Church is wrong, which non-Catholic denomination is right?

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ChristianKnight said:
Probably not. Um, no I thought about it for 30 seconds, and I like my opinoin but it would depend on who’s opinoin I think had facts.
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Are you actually saying what I think you’re saying? That you trust the Bible, but not the people who compiled it?!?!?!?
 
Jimmy_B said:
Do you trust those who completed the United States, Declaration of Independence? They’re dead too….
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THEY ARE DEAD, if they had been around now, ya I’d trust Ben Franklin or Sam Adams, but unfortunately their not.
 
ChristianKnight said:
Why would I trust them? Their dead.
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So… since you can’t trust their judgment, doesn’t that throw into doubt the entire validity of the Bible? After all, how do we know they made the right decisions on which books to include?
 
Rolltide said:
So… since you can’t trust their judgment, doesn’t that throw into doubt the entire validity of the Bible? After all, how do we know they made the right decisions on which books to include?
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Faith.
 
Rolltide said:
So… although you don’t trust their judgment, you still have faith that their judgment was correct? Huh? That makes NO sense…
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How can I trust them if they are dead? Do I trust them when they put it together? I don’t know, I try to stick with my bible, but thanks, you’ve made me question why I read the bible, and I am gonna stop until I have found out why I really do read it.
 
ChristianKnight said:
How can I trust them if they are dead? Do I trust them when they put it together? I don’t know, I try to stick with my bible, but thanks, you’ve made me question why I read the bible, and I am gonna stop until I have found out why I really do read it.
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The Catholic answer to that question would be that because the decisions of the Catholic Church on faith and morals (and faith and morals ONLY) are protected by the Holy Spirit, we have the guarantee of God that a mistake could not have been made, since the compilation of the Bible would be a matter of faith. Only the Catholic and Orthodox Churches have that protection. Without it, there is no way to guarantee the process. It is one of the primary reasons I’m a Catholic.

Suppose you can’t trust their judgment. By that logic, the Docetists or the Gnostics could have been right all along! Maybe the compilers made a mistake! Really, the only other alternative is to completely trust the judgment of those that compiled the Bible, and hope that they studied the problem thoroughly, always remembering that they are flawed human beings. If you do that though, can you really guarantee that those books are inspired?

Would you rather trust men, or men protected by the Holy Spirit?
 
Rolltide said:
The Catholic answer to that question would be that because the decisions of the Catholic Church on faith and morals (and faith and morals ONLY) are protected by the Holy Spirit, we have the guarantee of God that a mistake could not have been made, since the compilation of the Bible would be a matter of faith. Only the Catholic and Orthodox Churches have that protection. Without it, there is no way to guarantee the process. It is one of the primary reasons I’m a Catholic.

Suppose you can’t trust their judgment. By that logic, the Docetists or the Gnostics could have been right all along! Maybe the compilers made a mistake! Really, the only other alternative is to completely trust the judgment of those that compiled the Bible, and hope that they studied the problem thoroughly, always remembering that they are flawed human beings. If you do that though, can you really guarantee that those books are inspired?

Would you rather trust men, or men protected by the Holy Spirit?
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I do not see where the “protection” comes in affect. I have been shown biblical proof, but it wasn’t very good proof if you ask me.
 
BTW Christian Knight are you serious about not reading the bible until you have more evidence that it’s validated?
 
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