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REASON AND INFALLIBILITY

ROME ADDS TO GOSPEL

IS INFALLIBILITY INSPIRATION?

INFALLIBLE CONCLUSION MEANS INFALLIBLE PREMISES

INFALLIBILITY CAN’T REVEAL

NOT ECUMENICAL SO NOT INFALLIBLE

 

REASON AND INFALLIBILITY

 

The Church of Rome claims to be infallible.  This doctrine is the Achilles’ heel of Catholicism.  Pulverise it and the whole unbiblical system crashes down except the Bible.  Prove one infallible doctrine to be wrong and you prove that the Church is not infallible.  All the doctrines of Rome that are shown false in this book are held by that Church to be infallible for she used her infallibility to teach and sanction them.

 

Rome teaches that all that God has revealed is in the Bible and in tradition. Both are the word of God.

 

Rome maintains that reason shows that an infallible teaching Church is necessary for much of scripture and tradition is unclear and needs this Church to clarify it.  But if they do that does not mean that she is infallible.  A devious answer is that if an infallible interpreter were required then Rome was it for it is the only claimant in the early days of the Church.  But there were scores of sects that made similar claims and there is no evidence from the first or second centuries that the Church of Rome could not err. 

 

St Irenaeus said that the Church of Rome was to be listened to because of its learning and apostolic origin which has nothing to do with it being infallible.  He wanted the heretics to listen to that Church and would have told them it was infallible if he had heard of that idea.  Some very mystical Christians followed the interpretations of their leaders who they viewed as prophets because they found some of the scriptures to be too vague.  Also God might have made them vague for some purpose intending to send a prophet centuries later to do the interpreting. 

 

When the Church becomes the only authorised interpreter of the Bible and makes infallible decisions on how to interpret then the Church becomes the real authority and the Bible has none.  Since the Church says infallibility does not work unless she does her homework carefully so that it can guide her to the right conclusion it follows that the reasons for her interpretation must be infallible as well.  It is plain to be seen that if the Church can get the right and most probable conclusion from studying the matter there is no need for infallibility at all.  People will good brains would be able to see what the logical answer is.  Infallibility is just a trick for forcing people to let the Church tell them what is what.  It is certainly one of the most outlandish claims made by the Church and it’s disarming too which is why it looks saner than it is.  This infallibility is not a great thing and is a failure for it cannot sanction the authority it pretends to sanction when there is no agreement among theologians as to what dogmas are infallible (page 27, Biblical Exegesis and Church Doctrine). 

 

The Catholic Church argues that since it is the true religion Christ would not let it err in thinking it is infallible when it is not for then it would cease to be the true Church.  So it is thought that if the Church of Rome is the Church of Christ then it is infallible for it says so.  If the Church can know by some grace that it is right when it says that God has revealed a dogma and therefore the dogma is true then what is to stop anybody from thinking they have got the gift of infallibility and forming a new sect?  The Church forbidding people to do that shows that it is not Catholic for Catholic means the Church cannot unjustly exclude anybody.  This is disturbing sectarianism.

 

The Church can be fallible if millions of Catholics can make piles of errors in religion and remain Catholics.  They cannot but then it is possible for the true church to exist and not be infallible in its official doctrine.  The Catholic Church even claims that those Christians who are very far from her are true Catholics and just don’t know it!

 

Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine, Part 1, reminds us that the Church has two kinds of teaching, ordinary and solemn.  Ordinary has not been infallibly defined but solemn has but ordinary is more important than solemn in the sense that it comprises the general and constant and unchanging teaching of the Church (page 177-178).  Ordinary teaching is considered infallible without a formal definition if it is the constant teaching of the Church. 

 

Theologians disagree a lot about what teachings are really inerrant doctrines.  What use is infallibility when nobody can be sure when it was used?  When such uncertainty is permitted by God to exist he would just let a group of bishops or a pope pretend to use the charism of infallibility in order to deceive the Church.  The Church also is unable to work out when the bishops speaking as one without an ecumenical council are infallible (page 17, Infallibility in the Church).  If they had any infallibility at all they would not be so confused.

 

Rome does not know everything and when Jesus let this happen it shows that he does not need an infallible Church.

 

Rome says miracles like Lourdes prove she is infallible for they show that God approves of the Catholic Church.  But the Church teaches false doctrines such as that you can do good works while having unrepented sin though you are telling God, “I do this good with the sin”, which makes an insult of it.  It is like offering a nice dinner to somebody with a dead mouse on it. 

 

There is no evidence that Catholicism is protected against making theological mistakes therefore it is evil to assert that she is for that is saying that you should submit to her even though it is all guesswork.  That is irrational and bigoted and unnecessary.

 

To believe in the gospel because the Church says it is true is to believe in the Church and not in God even if it is the gospel of God for we don’t know that when we depend on the Church.  We must believe in God and what he has said instead.  It is idolatry not to.  We see that Roman Catholicism does not do this and believes in the Church instead of God.

 

If the Church of Rome and the pope really believed in infallibility the Church would be a democracy for then the Church would still be incapable of error.  They would give the people the chance to run the Church under certain good restrictions when the people want it so much.  They could delegate infallibility to the ordinary people of the Church so that what most genuine Catholics think can be taken as what God teaches.  Vatican I, the 1869-1870 Ecumenical Council, was questioned by some theologians because it got its decrees past by manipulating the proceedings so that a simple majority to vote doctrines into irrevocable dogma was achieved (page 55, HANS KUNG, HIS WORK AND HIS WAY).  Never did the Church get together to infallibly proclaim that this is the list of infallible councils and the list is infallibly correct.  What it could do is infallibly declare that the decrees of these councils were infallible and that way there could be no doubt.

 

The Church holds that ecumenical councils are infallible.  There is no list of such councils that is binding on a Catholic (page 55, HANS KUNG, HIS WORK AND HIS WAY).  The accepted numbering of the councils and the accepted list is questioned by some Catholic theologians.  What good is infallibility then if the Catholic can reject some councils as defective or infallible?   

 

Even conservative Catholic theologians hold that the Church being kept by God in enough truth to save souls is more important than holding that the statements given by ecumenical councils or the Church using its infallibility are infallible (page 97, HANS KUNG, HIS WORK AND HIS WAY).  The radical Catholic theologian, Hans Kung wrote that when he tried to get the Church through its theologians to prove to him that it is possible for the Holy Spirit simply to protect some essential statements from error it never responded (page 97, HANS KUNG, HIS WORK AND HIS WAY).  His conclusion was that no theologian was able to do it or could do it. 

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ROME ADDS TO GOSPEL

 

Roman Catholicism says, “The Holy Catholic Church recognises that there has been no new divine revelation since apostolic times (Vatican 2, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation).  Jude 3 is clear that the teaching of the apostles is the faith once for all given to the Church.  The Book of Revelation ends with a declaration that the word of God needs no addition or subtraction.  St Augustine, a major source of infallible Catholic tradition, wrote that Jesus told the world through the prophets and the apostles all that he decided the world needed to know (Book Eleven, Chapter 3, City of God).  Catholicism is against new revelations which is what she means when she says she never changes – apparitions only highlight what we are already told by the revelation that finished with the apostles.  The doctrines many think are additions to the teaching of the apostles are implied by what they preached though it took time for the Church to work them out.  For example, the sinless conception of Mary in her mother’s womb was contained implicitly in the revelation given by Jesus (Question 145, Radio Replies, Vol 1).  Growth in understanding of a revelation is not adding to it.  We recognise the traditions that give true revelation by this harmony with the Bible for there was much false tradition even in the days of the apostles.”

 

To explode the Roman Catholic claim that her unbiblical doctrines are not new revelations all we have to do is to show that they are not implied by the revelation of the apostles.  But this implying is not of much assistance when we have so little that the apostles wrote.  Forgers and disciples of the apostles wrote most of the New Testament.

 

The infallibly proclaimed doctrine that Mary never had original sin is not implied by revelation.  The Bible didn’t mention it and tradition didn’t agree about it.  There is no evidence that it was taught by the apostles.  All the early Fathers took the line that Mary was conceived in original sin for she was born of sex (page 333, Vicars of Christ).  And reason said the following.  “The Catholic Church says that Jesus needed a sinless mother to be sinless himself.  But she didn’t have a sinless mother so what did he need one for?  God could have preserved him from it the way the pope said he did Mary.”  If Catholics are right to say that Mary must have been sinless when she was full of grace (Luke 1:28) that does not prove that she never carried original sin.  Maybe she became immaculate then.  But full of grace is the same as being full of the Spirit for a good alternative to the word grace is “having God’s helpful and friendly presence”.  Elizabeth, Mary’s cousin, was said to have been full of the Spirit and so was the sinful Samson.  The term just means that you are taken over by grace at times of your own free will and not that you are perfect all the time.

 

Accordingly, when Pope Pius IX infallibly declared Mary to be sinless at her conception he was guessing.  He was not infallible.

 

The epistle to the Romans says that all have sinned without exception.  Rome says that Mary was not put in for she was an obvious exception like Jesus was.  In other words, the people of Rome already knew that he did not mean her.  But Paul was writing to people who had a bad grasp of Christian doctrine.  He had to explicate many basic teachings in his letter.  All he had to do was write, “except Mary,” but he didn’t.  He makes it clear in Romans 5 that Jesus was sinless so nobody should say that since he did not write, “except Jesus”, that it means Mary could have been excluded.  But even without such arguments we can see that it is most likely that the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception was denied by the early Church.  We have no reason to believe that Paul thought Mary was an exception to the infection of original sin.  Remember, always go for the simplest explanation.  God could have preserved Jesus from original like he allegedly did his mother though she had a sinful ordinary mother and father so nothing in the Bible even implies that she was immaculate.  The doctrine does not come from apostolic dogma but is a later invention.  It is heresy for the Church has defined or irrevocably set down in stone with her infallibility that she has no authority to create new doctrines. 

 

Some Catholics say that all does not mean literally all when Paul said all sinned for he wrote in Romans 11:26 that all Israel would be saved.  That looks good when out of context but in the context Paul said that Israel would be hard of heart against Jesus until the times of the Gentiles were fulfilled meaning that all of a future generation of Israel would be saved.

 

The Church says that she can infallibly decree that Mary was conceived immaculate as long as there is nothing in the Bible that is inconsistent with what she wants to decree (page 104, Church and Infallibility).  But this is a dangerous position.  You can add on too much too easily.

 

Nearly all Catholicism’s unscriptural doctrines are in the same boat as the Immaculate Conception in so far as we only have the word of the Church in their support and we must make that boat sink in the interest of truth.  The first statement of transubstantiation might have been made by Justin Martyr after the NT was completed.  How could the doctrine possibly not be an addition when there is no hard evidence of its divine apostolic origin?  The Church itself disputes the historicity of John’s gospel which allegedly teaches transubstantiation which means there is no evidence for the divine authority of this gospel apart from the Church saying it is the word of God and how would the Church know for it is not God?  The early Church did not have a pope and especially an infallible one or pray to saints.  Need I go on? 

 

If the Catholic doctrines were revealed by Jesus they would be in the Bible.

 

If tradition is really a body of apostolic doctrine and not an addition to the faith taught by Christ through the apostles then why for most of its history has the Church used forged tradition to get money and power?  Gregory VII had outright forgeries created and the editions of the early Fathers writings altered ever so subtly to back up his view that the pope was the successor of Peter, that the Church never changed doctrine and that the pope had the right to rule the world (page 83, Vicars of Christ).  Many writings of the fathers have only relatively recently shown to be forgeries and just like Mormons with the Book of Mormon some are still seemingly convinced the forgeries are genuine.  People will too often just convince themselves that they believe what they want.  A realistic forgery could throw Roman tradition off the track forever which is enough to prove that Jesus would not have left the Church in the treacherous hands of tradition. All the Church needs to trick us with is at least two witnesses who say they saw an ancient document from the fathers and then say the document perished in a fire so all that is left is the verbal account of the tradition.  Many dogmas were just put in writing by one father so the Church does not even need two.  How could the pope be infallible when he has to depend on scholars who might be wrong that such and such a source of doctrine is authentic and transmitted correctly?  Are the scholars infallible as well? 

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IS INFALLIBILITY INSPIRATION?

 

According to Roman Catholicism, “It is the teaching of our Holy Mother the Church that her infallibility and that of the pope is not inspiration.  It is not putting an idea into their mind but just preventing them from making the wrong decision (page 190, Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine, Part 1).  She can only use her infallibility to find out if a doctrine is part of divine revelation by thinking about it objectively and by examining its basis.  So if the thinking behind the doctrine is faulty then it is not revealed by God and the Church and pope are not infallible and are guilty of polluting the apostolic doctrine with new material and fostering the heresy of further revelation just like the Mormons and the Moonies.”

 

The doctrine that the virgin Mary had been taken up into Heaven came from puerile apocryphal scriptures and even if Mary was sinless it does not follow that God must have assumed her into Heaven.  He might have done but his ways look strange to us so there is no reason to believe in the assumption even if we think God would save Mary perfectly by resurrecting and perfecting her after death.  In 1950, Pope Pius XII infallibly taught in Munificentissimus Deus that the assumption is a doctrine revealed by God.  At best this was a conjecture so when he makes infallible guesses he must be inspired.  He was claiming to be a prophet of God on a par with those of scripture which made him a heretic and a fake pope for the ban on new prophets was part of the basic and constant doctrine of the Church.

 

Nearly all Catholic doctrines have the same problem.  Priests pardoning sins, the papacy, Church infallibility and the power of baptism to remove original sin in babies are all guesses.  There is no real evidence for them.  The early Church believing in them means nothing for Jesus said that apostasy would be the preference of his followers and there always were opponents.  And what makes it even worse the earliest Church showed no trace of these doctrines.

 

The distinction between infallibility and inspiration is a distinction without a difference.  If the pope has three options A, B and C and he is guided to reject A and B and this shows that C must be true then he is inspired to accept C.  He must have been inspired to see that A and B are wrong.  The words of C are ratified as infallible by God when this happens so they are as much scripture as the Bible.  The Bible itself is full of sayings from people who were not prophets but whose words God chose for his book.  He did not inspire the words but he inspired the insertion of the words and approved of them which is in essentials just as good.  So the infallible statements of the Church are new scripture.  The Church is heretical and incapable of infallibility as a consequence for not recognising this scripture and officially teaching that it is scripture.

 

The teaching that God does not inspire the choice of C but inspires the rejection of A and B is a bizarre one to say the least.  What if there should have been a choice D that nobody thought of?  God would have to inspire the pope to see that choice D exists.  It would be easier if he just inspired choice C in the first place.  His playing games like this hardly commends him as somebody we can be proud of and put confidence in.  The Church has made up the doctrine that the infallibility it has is different from inspiration because it wants to dodge the accusation that it is creating new scripture when it gives new doctrine.  The Church also says the apostles’ teaching cannot be added to and additions are always heresy so she has to look as if she is not creating new dogma but discovering with the help of God and sanctioning things that are implicit in apostolic teaching.  But when you look close enough you see the Church is employing inspiration and adding to scripture.  If the apostles teaching cannot be added to then the Church is not infallible and not apostolic in the unique way for it to be the one holy Catholic and apostolic Church.

 

When infallibility only works if the Church thoroughly does its homework first it follows that the Holy Spirit has to inspire it to realise that all this was done exhaustively and correctly meaning that the reasons for the definition are infallible as well.

 

The Church denies that it is inspired when it does its homework. The Church says that if it does it all wrong the infallible conclusion will not really be infallible.  The logical consequence of this has to be that each and every Catholic has to see this homework and check it before he or she could have the right to believe in the dogma that was infallibly sanctioned.  Why?  To let men get you to believe what they say God says would be blasphemous unless you are as sure as can be that he did speak to them for God comes first.  And you have to be sure that the infallibility was able to function and it is only right to check out the homework for it is only human work.  To fail to check is, in effect, to leave the Church by opposing its dogma and the purity of the dogma.  The chief work of the Church is to teach (page 231, Catholicism and Fundamentalism) for she sanctifies through this teaching so the teaching comes first so doctrinal aberration in any form is a means of excommunication.  The unity of the Catholic Church is thoroughly artificial.  A Church that is not one and therefore not a Church can’t be infallible or have a monopoly on being infallible.

 

The problems with infallibility are so obvious that it makes one certain that the pope and the higher level Catholics who have the power to make infallible statements know fine well that they are deceiving.

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INFALLIBLE CONCLUSION MEANS INFALLIBLE PREMISES

 

Because infallibility is not inspiration, the Church has to think about a doctrine to see if it is credible and basing her claim on the grounds in favour she may and only can then infallibly proclaim that God says it is true.

 

Her logic will be like the syllogism with two premises and a conclusion.  Here is an example.  The Bible is right.  Jesus said he turns communion into his body in it.  Therefore communion is the body of Christ.

 

The examination needed for proclaiming a doctrine infallible is carried out under the protection of the Holy Spirit.

 

The Church does not obligate you to accept her proofs for a doctrine but if they cause the infallibility then they are automatically proclaimed infallible revelations when the doctrine is proclaimed.  The Church believes many things now for different reasons than it did in the past proving that it is not the true Church for if a Church was founded that was true to the principle that the reasons for a dogma are as infallible as the dogma it would then be the true Church.

 

Before a doctrine can be raised to an infallible dogma it has to be seen that it fits in with previous dogmas. 

 

If a previous dogma implies that the doctrine is true there is no need for an infallible proclamation though it might still be done.  If previous dogmas do not imply but allow for the proposed new dogma then it follows that the grounds for it are not as strong as they would be if the doctrine were implied and it can’t be proclaimed infallible.  A dogma is as good as proven when proclaimed infallible but this tells us different.  Thus, Catholic dogmas like the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary, the virgin birth and several others are not really infallible for the verification is insufficient. 

 

The theologian pope, Benedict XIV, declared in 1740 that there was silence on the assumption of Mary in the early Church and he also said that there was not enough to go on to make a dogma of her assumption.  Each doctrine has a different quality and quantity of evidence behind it too which means that the more evidence there is the more infallible the dogma made of it is.  But the Church cannot accept this for if a doctrine is not convincing then it makes the infallibility that elevates it to dogma not convincing whereas the purpose of infallibility is to make a doctrine as convincing as the other parts of the faith in the sense that you are certain that God has said it is true so it is true.

 

The pope could not make the Immaculate Conception a dogma without considering what Original Sin is and does.  So when he made it a dogma his interpretation of original sin was being made a dogma as well.  The logical links between dogmas such as become dogmas themselves.  The Church got the idea of substance and appearance not being the same thing from Aristotle and this convinced it that transubstantiation was possible for then you could have the wafer seeming to all intents and purposes to be bread while it is really the body of Christ.  In substance it is the body of Christ and not bread.  So when the Church created the dogma of transubstantiation it was approving of Aristotle’s ridiculous physics and imagining that it showed that transubstantiation was possible when neither Aristotle or logic show that his theory makes it possible so we have two foolish dogmas created automatically and implicitly with the proclamation of transubstantiation.

 

To cast doubt on the infallibility of one Catholic doctrine is to doubt them all because they are all products of that alleged infallibility. 

 

Infallibility instead of safeguarding the proud claims of the Church dismantles them.

 

Infallibility is a useless miracle because it is giving certainty but it can only make a doctrine certain when the doctrine is already certain.  Thus, a doctrine that has not formally been declared infallible like the immortality of birth control can still be as certain as an infallible doctrine.

 

The Catholic believes that the Church is infallible because it claims to be infallible and that it claims to be infallible because it is infallible.  This is the fallacy of circular reasoning.  The vicious circle is unjustifiable even if you believe in justifiable ones for there is no need for belief in revelation especially revelation coming through a Church.

 

So popes and bishops have left the Church and the one true faith in their hearts by rejecting and changing the reasons for believing things and the notion of apostate and schismatical clergy being infallible is preposterous and contrary to infallible Catholic doctrine.  How anybody can expect the Church to have real humility is beyond me.

 

There is nothing more serious than ending human life.  The papacy set up the Inquisition and butchered right up until soon after 1856 when Pius IX said that serious cases of heresy should be treated with clandestine murders (page 244, Vicars of Christ).  Pius VII revived the Spanish Inquisition in 1814 which went as far as to persecute Catholics who did not observe the fast days of the Church (page 243, ibid).  This was done on religious grounds.  To make dogmas as cruel as that is definitely a far stronger statement of infallibility than just making an infallible statement in St Peter’s.  They are more believable for the pope endorsed them by death.  He declared his dogmas by human sacrifice.  The rules of the Church that heretics should be slain are stated to be as important as human life.  That is what the pope was saying when he backed up these rules. 

 

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INFALLIBILITY CAN’T REVEAL

 

The Church teaches that infallibility is not inspiration so the pope or Church could give and infallible revelation but use the wrong words to express it for it is up to him how he or they put the truth across. 

 

Belief in infallible statements is not a part of the Catholic faith (page 88, Believing in God).  The Church believes it uses its infallibility when it gives statements of binding dogma but that is not the same as it making infallible statements.  You can use statements to mean to express the truth or what is infallible revelation and they may not do that for their grammar or wording is not right.  So the wording is not infallible but the meaning is.  That is what the Church means when it denies believing in infallible statements.

 

(This is different from Hans Kung’s view that infallibility is a priori wrong.  He said that an infallible statement cannot be infallible because it is made up of words and words can mean anything.  For example, the word yellow conjures up an image of a different yellow colour and yellow shape in the mind of a person who reads the word.  This view of his is obviously mistaken for if he were right we would not be able to understand one another at all.)

 

What use is infallibility when it does not guarantee that the right words will be used?  The charism is for making the Church pick out truth from error and for establishing certainty in the faith.

 

What if the Church resists the influence of Jesus and issues a fake infallible proclamation?  The Church is not always certain what was an infallible decree in the past and what was not.  We are told that God will kill anybody who tries to delude the Church this way.  But anybody who makes a decision to commit such a sin is no longer in the Church for trying to pervert the faith and destroy proper unity.  It is too incredible to believe that God would murder them. 

 

The fact that the Church can be open to Jesus and his gift of infallibility and then wilfully misrepresent what it has learned by using ambiguity is fatal to the doctrine of infallibility. 

 

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NOT ECUMENICAL SO NOT INFALLIBLE

 

The Catholic Faith says that ecumenical councils when invoking the power of infallibility make the right decisions because of God’s protective power.

 

Roman Catholicism’s ecumenical councils are not infallible though she says they are if they want to be.  They are fallible they are not ecumenical. 

 

Another reason is that the charism of infallibility does not belong only to the bishops but to the whole Church including Protestants who Rome says are just misled Catholics.  Patrick Crowley in Infallibility in the Church says that the idea that only the bishops as a whole are infallible does not reflect early tradition which says the opposite for it holds that the whole Church is infallible and the laity have a share in it (page 3-6,14).  True Catholic teaching says that a layperson or a sincere Christian heretic has as much right to vote in General Councils as bishops do.  (Don’t worry by the way, the tradition is not that early but it is the oldest.)  This means that few of the General Councils represented the Catholic Church and so the rest were invalid for they were only for a segment of the Church.  They were invalid for nobody but bishops could become a part of them. 

 

The Councils were invalid for the allegedly schismatic and actually schismatic Churches were barred.  Since the so-called schism between east and west in the eleventh century there has been no true ecumenical council and none of the decisions given at Catholic ones should be accepted or taken seriously.  The fact that the Eastern Church had an uneasy truce with the Western Church and they were never in full union proves that their exclusion from voting at ecumenical councils means the councils they were not participants of are not ecumenical and therefore not binding on the Church.

 

Catholicism is a false religion which means that it is a human institution.  If tradition says the whole Church is infallible then it follows that the laity should be appointing and voting for the bishops so that the bishops represent them properly and can be their voice in an ecumenical council.  Therefore any council that does not use bishops like this is not infallible.  It is possible for the pope to have sufficient control over who becomes a bishop without trampling on the laity.

 

All rival Churches of Christ have enough in common to make decisions that are agreeable to one another.

 

Vatican 1 is remembered for the machinations of Pius IX who chose mostly bishops who already accepted papal infallibility to vote for papal infallibility and declare it true and infallible.  Vatican 1 was not a truly ecumenical council by any standard.  It was not infallible.

 

 

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CONCLUSION

The Roman Catholic Church makes no sense when it claims to be infallible.  It is actually claiming to be in the place of God by doing so!

 

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MORAL PHILOSOPHY, Joseph Rickaby SJ, Stonyhurst Philosophy Series, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1912 

NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, The Catholic University of America and the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., Washington, District of Columbia, 1967 

OUGHT I TO SEND MY CHILD TO A CONVENT SCHOOL? Rev Walter H Denbow, Protestant Truth Society, London, 1969 

ROMAN CATHOLIC CLAIMS, Charles Gore MA, Longmans, London, 1894 

ROMAN CATHOLIC OBJECTIONS ANSWERED, Rev H O Lindsay, John T Drought Ltd, Dublin 

ROMAN CATHOLIC TEACHING CONTRASTED WITH BIBLE TEACHING, Bernard Burt, The Bible Student Press, Coventry

ROMAN CATHOLICISM TESTED BY THE SCRIPTURES, John A Coleman, New Litho Pty. Ltd, Victoria, 1987

ROMAN CATHOLICISM WHAT IS FINAL AUTHORITY?  Harold J Berry, Back to the Bible, Nebraska, 1974 

ROMAN CATHOLICISM, Lorraine Boettner, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, Phillipsburg, NJ, 1962 

ROMANISM AT VARIANCE WITH THE BIBLE, Rev James Gardner, Protestant Truth Society, London, 1987

ROME HAS SPOKEN, A GUIDE TO FORGOTTEN PAPAL STATEMENTS AND HOW THEY HAVE CHANGED THROUGH THE CENTURIES, Maureen Fiedler and Linda Rabben (Editors), Crossroad Publishing, New York, 1998

ROME THE GREAT PRIVATE INTERPRETATOR, Peter S Ruckman Penascola Bible Press, Palatka, Florida, 1969

SALVATION, THE BIBLE AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM, William Webster, Banner of Truth, Edinburgh, 1990

SECRETS OF ROMANISM, Joseph Zacchello, Loizeaux Brothers, New Jersey, 1984

THE ADVANCE OF ROMANISM, S M Houghton, Cotswold Bible Witness, 1964 

THE BIBLE OR THE CHURCH? Ken Camplin, Printland Publishers, India, 1996 

THE BIBLE REFUTES ROMANISM Philip H Rand Protestant Truth Society, London 

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS THE ANSWER, Paul Whitcomb TAN, Illinois, 1986

THE CHURCH AND INFALLIBILITY, BC Butler, The Catholic Book Club, London, undated

THE CHURCH OF ROME AND THE WORD OF GOD, Rev Eric C Last, Protestant Truth Society, London

THE DEVELOPMENTS OF ROMAN CATHOLICISM, John A Bain MA, Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh and London, undated 

THE EARLY CHURCH, Henry Chadwick, Pelican, Middlesex, 1987

THE GREAT MEANS OF SALVATION AND OF PERFECTION, St Alphonsus De Ligouri, Redemptorist Fathers, Brooklyn, 1988

THE MOTHER OF GOD AND OUR INTERIOR LIFE, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP, TAN, Illinois, 1993

THE PRIMITIVE FAITH AND ROMAN CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENTS, Rev John A F Gregg BD, APCK, Dublin, 1928 

THE RICHES OF ROME AND THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST Robert D Browne, Protestant Truth Society, London 

THE STUDENT’S CATHOLIC DOCTRINE, Rev Charles Hart BA, Burns & Oates, London, 1961 

THE TRUE CHURCH AND THE FALSE, The National Union of Protestants, Suffolk 

THE VATICAN PAPERS, Nino Lo Bello, New English Library, Kent, 1982 

TRADITIONAL DOCTRINES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH EXAMINED, Rev CCJ Butlin, Protestant Truth Society, London

TREASURES FROM GOD’S STOREHOUSE, Dr Bill Jackson, Colonial Baptist Press, Louisville, Kentucky, 1991

VICARS OF CHRIST, Peter De Rosa, Corgi Books, London, 1993 

WHAT HAPPENED!  Francisco Lacueva, Evangelical Protestant Society, Belfast 

WHY BE A CATHOLIC?  Fr David Jones OP, Catholic Truth Society, London, 1996 

WHY I AM NOT A ROMAN CATHOLIC, Rev Canon McCormick DD, Protestant Truth Society, London, 1968 

YOU CAN LEAD ROMAN CATHOLICS TO CHRIST, Wilson Ewin, New England Mission, Nashua 1980 

 

 

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