If, when the Canon was assembled, all of the apostles were dead, and Christ was in heaven, who or what was used infallibly to determine what was inspired and what was not. Since they did not use Scripture to assemble the list of Canon, doesn’t that kind of prove that scripture is not the only infallable authority. If that does not prove that to you, then when, and you must prove this from scripture, did the authority cease to be authoritative and when did Scripture become the only infallible rule of faith, and not the Church that assembled and Promulgated it.
“Let’s all calm down about the 'ol Jesus and the Apostles didn’t practice sola Scriptura so therefore SS is false argument. This is not a valid argument, and those who understand SS properly don’t use the argument. Why? Did the Apostles or Jesus recognize Papal Infallibility? Using the same logic you undermine your own position. One shouldn’t use arguments that refute your own position.”
Jesus did recognize Papal infallibility, he instituted it. When Jesus stated in Matt 16:18-19, that Peter would be given the “keys to the Kingdom,” He was pulling from the text of Isaiah 22:20-24 almost verbatum.“And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias; And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy
power into his hand: and he shall be as a
father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. And I will lay the **key of the house of David **upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open. And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and
he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father. And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.”
The Catholic Church teaches that Christ was re-instituting the office of Prime Minister. Since Christ is called The Son of David in the same Book of Matthew, and he came to fullfill the ancient Kingdom of David and to transform it into the Heavenly Kingdom, He uses the old model of the Kingdom of David as the basis for the structure of the new Kingdom. The word Pope is the Italian word for Papa, which simply means that the Pope is like a Father to the Inhabitants of the New Heavenly Jerusalem, which is the Church(see Rev 21). Also, the office of Prime Minister lasted for the entire duration of the Kingdom of David, always appointing a successor when needed, and that successor had the same authority as the person he replaced, it is the office that holds the authority, and that authority is held by who ever holds that office. All of the apostles would have known what scripture Christ was qouting, and would know,when the Spirit came on Pentecost, what he meant. Quite simply put, it was Christ himself that set up the office of Pope and gave it a share of the authority that was given to him from the Father. To ensure that the Great Commission could be carried out, He had to leave us with an authority that could lead us into all truth and steer us away from heresy. Making disciples of all nations could not have been done in one generation. This authority in no way means that every Pope will be even remotley Christ Like. It simply gaurantees the faithful that Christ is with us always even to the end of the age and that He did not leave us with God breathed Scripture, He left us with a Church, which he said He would build, and that Church gave us God Breathed Scripture, and continues to make disciples of all nations until He comes again.
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