Infallibility and Moral Relativism

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Those who claim the Church is presumptuous to claim infallibility in the teaching of doctrine generally have no doubts about their own infallibility.

If one claims that what he tells me is not infallible, he admits what he is telling me about Christianity MAY or MAY NOT BE TRUE. Why would I bother to listen to a teacher who forewarns me that his lessons may or may not be accurate? Likewise, why would I be a member of a church that tells me what it teaches may or may not be true?

In retrospect, the step from denying Church infallibility to moral relativism wasn’t a very big one.
 
I suppose the real difference is whether you trust your teacher to help you learn what to think, or how to think.
 
Actually church “infallibility” is moral relativism - whatever you want to be true, you declare it to be true
 
Why would anyone think he is infallible? :confused:

Why would anyone want a teacher to think he is infallible? :confused:
 
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Those who claim the Church is presumptuous to claim infallibility in the teaching of doctrine generally have no doubts about their own infallibility.

If one claims that what he tells me is not infallible, he admits what he is telling me about Christianity MAY or MAY NOT BE TRUE. Why would I bother to listen to a teacher who forewarns me that his lessons may or may not be accurate? Likewise, why would I be a member of a church that tells me what it teaches may or may not be true?

In retrospect, the step from denying Church infallibility to moral relativism wasn’t a very big one.
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So you only listen to those who claim infallibility. That sounds like a constrictive policy!

Did you listen to your schoolteachers when you were growing up? Did they also claim infallibility?

Then again, I do not claim to be infallible, so apparently you’re just going to ignore me.
 
Moral relativism- their is no absolute moral standard
Infallibility denial- nobody can know what the absolute moral standard is with complete absolute 100% certainty

The difference is quite clear- I don’t believe anybody is infallible with respect to say, physical laws, but I still believe physical laws exist.
 
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