Square peg in a round hole?

[exiled]

Eve was tempted by Satan. She was told that “the moment you eat it [the apple] your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is bad.” (St. Joseph’s NAB)
So Eve was filled with the pride that comes from thinking we can know the mind of God? Of being like Him? As we know, she is disobedient.
This is where I wonder if it is not like Sola Scriptura. The Christian has been convinced he can know the mind and the Will of God, knowing right from wrong. No, the Bible is not forbidden fruit, but Satan has succeeded in separating many souls from the Body of Christ, which is His Bride, the Catholic Church.
Obedience is a tough calling, and Eve was the first to fall. What about those who just cannot submit themselves to the rightful authority of the Church?

 

[Church_Militant]

What about 'em?

I believe that one has control of oneself and so we have the ability to obey even when we doubt.

 

[Della]

Most Bible Christians aren’t in rebellion against the Church, they have been brought up believing the Bible is the only source for matters of faith and morals. They therefore believe that as surely as they believe in their families, their country, their God. Telling them they should believe in the Church above the Bible sounds blasphemous to them. I know it did to me when I was told the Catholic Church thought itself better than the Bible–that’s how it was put to me when I was on the Evangelical/Pentecostal/Fundamentalist side of Christianity.

It is hard for people to convince their hearts even if they might be able to convince their heads that the Bible is a product of the Church and not the other way around. They have banked their salvation, their relationship with God and their fellow Christians on the Bible being the supreme authority. Asking them to give all that up on our word as Catholics isn’t enough for them. And their even looking into it for themselves seems treasonous to them.

We cannot judge our separated brethren by what we as Catholics are privileged to know and they are not. We have to gently and lovingly help them see the truth, not condemn them for not knowing what they never knew or would know if we hadn’t told them.