{"id":25449,"date":"2018-10-25T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/?p=25449"},"modified":"2018-10-25T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:13:21","slug":"inspired-infallible-prophets-analogy-to-infallible-popes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davearmstrong\/2018\/10\/inspired-infallible-prophets-analogy-to-infallible-popes.html","title":{"rendered":"Inspired & Infallible Prophets: Analogy to Infallible Popes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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The fully developed theory of infallibility cannot be \u201cproven\u201d \u2014 it is a matter of faith. But the principles<\/em> behind it can be. I deal with various facets of infallibility on my Papacy web page<\/a>. As usual, it is an accumulation of many<\/strong> individual evidences and indications<\/em> that make it compelling.\u00a0 All the evidence taken together make it exceedingly \u201cprobable\u201d (from a standpoint of human reason alone. I think Newman\u2019s Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine<\/em><\/a>\u00a0remains the best treatment of the overall case from the historical perspective.<\/p>\n

No pope ever issued a binding proclamation contrary to the received faith.\u00a0Infallibility applies to what is dogmatically proclaimed, not everything a pope does, or perfection on a human level.\u00a0Catholics know enough to not equate holders of an office with the dignity of the office itself (when they fall short). We\u2019re not like Protestants, who, too often, slavishly follow leaders (Calvin, Luther) no matter how foolish their teachings.<\/p>\n

According to the Old Testament, the prophet was to be judged by whether his prophecies came\u00a0true\u00a0or not. If they did not, he was regarded as a false prophet and stoned. That was the criterion of truthfulness, and a strong motivator for a person to be sure he was a prophet before claiming that! I would say the\u00a0New Testament covenant was fundamentally different insofar as all were now filled with the Holy Spirit; thus had much more of a power of discernment than the masses under the old covenant.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the standard then was simply whether a person spoke verifiable truth or not.<\/p>\n

I explained the exact nature of this analogical argument, at the end of chapter three of my book,\u00a0Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths<\/i><\/a>. I made roughly the same arguments in another paper of mine, online:\u00a0Bible on Papal & Church Infallibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, the argument is (as I stated in my book):<\/p>\n

\u201cIf prophets spoke with inspiration, then popes can plausibly speak infallibly, since the latter is a far less extraordinary gift than the former.\u201d Or, from a different angle: \u201cif those with lesser gifts can do the great thing (inspired utterance), then those with greater gifts can certainly do the lesser thing (infallible utterance).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Certain parts of the argument are indisputable. There were prophets in the Old Testament. These did speak the Word of the Lord, which was not only infallible, but in retrospect,\u00a0inspired, too, insofar as they are now recorded in inspired Scripture.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a simple analogy: there is such a thing as a\u00a0de facto<\/em>\u00a0infallible person in the Old Testament; there also<\/em> is such a thing in the New Testament. The presence of false prophets in both covenants does not nullify that. It simply means there are false prophets! The true<\/em> ones do not cease to exist because there are fake<\/em> ones; imitators.<\/p>\n

I am arguing for the existence of infallible authority; not the non-existence of fallible authority or illegitimate authority. Both can clearly exist simultaneously. Therefore, the presence of such fakers (freely conceded) constitutes no disproof at all of my analogy.<\/p>\n

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(originally 2-2-10)<\/p>\n

Photo credit:<\/strong> Prophet Isaiah<\/em>, by Antonio Balestra (1666-1740)<\/span> [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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