The Sufficiency Of Scripture

[Jake Huether]

The crisis of confidence in the Catholic Church’s authority was resolved by the Catholics at the Council of Trent (meeting from 1545 to 1563) by their decision to express the superior authority of the Church over the text of Scripture by adding several books of the Apocrypha to the Hebrew Old Testament.

I need not read further to know that this is a pile...

1) The Church never express the "superior authority of the Church over the text of Scripture". The Church has always maintained that there exist 3 EQUAL parts to the complete Word of God; namely, Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium.

2) The Church never "added" any books. Luther took out the books, and if he had it his way he'd have removed several more!

Hah!

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, when this trash is spread.

[Jake Huether]

The Protestants answered that there was no infallibility to be had outside the Bible, as the history of Church Councils and traditions made clear enough.

Hahahaha! They just destroyed their own argument in the very sentence that they use to support it.

How do they KNOW that Scripture is infallible, there but by the infalibility of the Church that they claim has "NO infallibility to be had."

Hahahaha! If the Church has NO infallibility, then Scripture doesn't either! LOL.

I still don't know what is going on in their heads.

The bible didn't plop down out of the sky.

They MUST therefore believe that the Church was infallible at one point in time. And if it was in order to compile the infallible Bible, then it must be documented somewhere that once a Bible is formed the Church is no longer infallible.

But they go a step beyond: They accept the Catholic Bible, but then they reject 7 of the books picked. Therefore they come upon another issue.

If the Church was fallible in picking the original 73 books, so that they had to remove the 7 "bad" books, then by what authority are the remaining 66 books "infallible"!?

And to say "God" in this case doesn't count, becuase "God" must have worked through someone! If he didn't work through the Catholic Church - then who? Luther? NO! Because the reformers didn't reject all the books he picked to reject!

What a mess!