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\"\"<\/a>I am reading a conversion story and apologetical book called An Invitation Heeded<\/em> published at the end of the 1800s with a view to editing it for re-publication by the Coming Home Network. In the chapter on infallibility the author makes the very good point that rather than the Catholic Church\u2019s stance on infallibility being nonsensical, it is the churches who deny infallibility that are absurd.<\/p>\n

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The essential Protestant position is, \u201cOur church is merely a human institution. It is not infallible.\u201d And yet they demand allegiance of the faithful to the beliefs and moral teachings of their church. But if their church, by their own insistence, is fallible how can they demand obedience and loyalty to their teachings? There is a logical hiccup here of enormous magnitude.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAh!\u201d the Protestant will object, \u201cOur church is fallible, but the Holy Scriptures are not, and it is the Holy Scriptures in which we place our confidence\u2013not in the traditions of men.\u201d Of course, this begs the question because Protestants of every stripe\u2013from radical Episcopalians with their Mother Goddess worship and homosexual marriage to mainstream Evangelicals to Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses all claim that their beliefs and practices are derived from and at least consistent with Scripture.<\/div>\n
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In fact, while denying that their leaders are infallible, every religion must act as if they are infallible, otherwise their religion would cease to function. Whenever Bob the Baptist steps through his church door he functions on the basic assumption that his pastor does not teach error in the matter of faith and morals. (this is the definition of infallibility) Likewise, Esther the Episcopalian and Martin the Methodist and Frank the Four Square Apostolic Church of the Redeemed of the Fourth Degree-ist all assume that their pastors teach without error\u2013otherwise their religion wouldn\u2019t work. They have to assume infallibility in practice, even if they deny it in theory.<\/div>\n
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The fact of the matter is, all religions function on the assumption that their church leader is infallible. Catholics are just the only ones who dare to make the claim, and how can Catholics make such an audacious claim? <\/div>\n
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There are only three options: 1) they are insane and deluded 2) they are liars 3) It\u2019s true.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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