Tag: infallible Magisterium

  • Biblical Exegesis: Catholic and Protestant Methodologies Compared

    Scripture several times explicitly lists Jesus’ brothers and names them, as well as referencing sisters. Yet despite the clear evidence and witness of Scripture, Catholic interpreters will assert that Mary and Joseph never had sex (Mary has the status of a consecrated virgin who remained a virgin throughout her whole life) and thus deny that…

  • Problems in Roman Catholic Theology

    As a Reformed Protestant, it should be no surprise that I have numerous problems with Roman Catholic theology. We actually agree on some things, such as the Real Presence of Christ in communion. Roman Catholics describe this process as transubstantiation whereas I prefer to keep it a mystery and eschew the outdated Aristotelian categories of…

  • Teaching Authority

    We do not have an infallible authority for science or mathematics, yet we are able to discover truth through our God-given faculties! It is a very false Catholic assertion that we cannot know any Biblical truth without an “infallible Magisterium” (a teaching authority). See Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) 2035. They just choose to…