I think that truth matters - especially doctrines concerning our souls. I think that teachers of such are accountable for such. The Catholic Church no less or no more than any other. This is where we disagree - because, as a Catholic, you may not hold The Catholic Church accountable for the doctrines it teaches but must accept whatever IT exclusively says “with docility.” And you’ve been trying to defend the wisdom of accepting whatever a teacher says because the self same so insists that you just do.
Here are but a few of the Scriptures I’ve shared, all of which suggests accountability:
2 Peter 2:1
Titus 2:1
1 Timothy 6:3
James 3:1
Revelation 2:2
Matthew 13:52
Luke 20:46
Ephesians 4:14
And of course, consider that your denomination INSISTS that ALL teachers be FULLY accountable - right here, right now!!! It just insists on exempting one and exclusively one from this: itself. THAT is what we are disagreeing about, the epistemological soundness of THAT.
Thank you.
Pax
You say, ‘truth matters’. How did men 1500 years after Christ built His Church find the authority to discern truth and find that the truth that was taught by Christ was not the truth being taught in the ONE Church for 1500 years?
Why is it you refuse to address Martin Luther’s view of the Catholic Church, specifically that he believed it to be the Church Christ started but, found objections of the sinful men and their practices in his own era? Why, now, has it become the Church of the Bible was not the Catholic Church, or that the Church was one and remained one until the Protestant reformation?
**2Pe 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
Tit 2:1 But speak thou the things that become sound doctrine:
1Ti 6:3 If any man teach otherwise and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to that doctrine which is according to godliness,
Jas 3:1 Be ye not many masters, my brethren, knowing that you receive the greater judgment.
Rev 2:2 I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear them that are evil. And thou hast tried them who say they are apostles and are not: and hast found them liars:
Mat 13:52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.
Luk 20:46 Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts:
Eph 4:14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive. **
Now, in reviewing the scriptures, you finally provided, I do see accountability in that everyone should hold to the traditions learned either by word or epistle.
2Th 2:15 (2:14) Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.
What you’re proposing is that Protestants, 1500 years later, decided which were correct doctrines and which were incorrect. Again, in making such assertions of right and wrong, they themselves claim ‘truth’ and infallibility.
See this leaves us with who has the authority to make such decisions of what is correct and what is not. You show ‘some’ verses that imply an accountability, but you do not show the verses giving ALL Protestant denominations have the authority to judge the authority given by Christ.
There is an accountability, defined by the authoritative men of the Church through the scriptures and traditions, Christ built. It’s not for everyone who reads a new meaning into scriptures to decide, those doctrines are wrong and must be rejected, according to their new private interpretation. The new interpretations began in the 1500s and exist even unto present day with everyone who thinks themselves to have an infallible interpretation over everyone else, therefore they feel called to start a new Church.
