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I’ve looked into it dude, The Catholic Church is true. Just trust me on this one.

 

Humour aside. Catholics don’t even trust their own interpretations of scripture.

Private interpretation of Scripture has always been forbidden, Scripture has always had a singular interpretation handed down from the Apostles.

 

How is it faulty? You keep saying it, but that assumes your personal interpretation is correct miraculously and all the Church Fathers are wrong.

“Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.”

What the Church Fathers understanding is that this was the first Infallible declaration of the Church through Peter. Direct Revelation from The Eternal Father, you couldn’t get more Infallibly guided, it was from the Highest Authority.

No other Apostle got direct revelation from The Eternal Father Himself. The Holy Spirit yes, but not directly from The Eternal Father. This was different.

Jesus actually precipitated the situation by raising a question of Faith, ( knowing who Jesus is definitively, is an important theological article of Faith ) and God The Father made Peter His mouthpiece in answering it.

This is precisely what the Chair of Peter does. If some question of Faith arises for the life of the Church.

Same kind of thing happened when the gentiles were brought into the Church.

Peter again gets direct revelation from Heaven, regarding the clean and unclean animals. Peter was guided Infallibly by Heaven.

We see the same guidance of Israel through the Chair of Moses.

Even though Caiaphas was a bad dude, but he had the Infallible guidance of God for the life of Israel.

“Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.” he did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.” John 11:49-52.

God still operated through the Chair of Moses, even though the occupant was bad. The gift was not for the individual, it is for Israel and in Peters case The Church.

The Chair of Peter is the Christian version of the Chair of Moses, for the life and guidance of the Church.

Jesus established a binding and loosing Authority of Peter to guide and settle matters of faith for the Church.

 

That’s right.

Do as they teach, even if they do not practice what they teach. They were hypocrites.

This is very important for people to understand, they had God given authority even though they were not good people.

This is because God is still faithful in guiding Israel and the Church.

God still prophesied through Caiaphas, he did not speak of his own accord.
The gift of Infallibility was for the people of Israel and in Peter for the Church.

Paul rebuked Peter for his hypocrisy, because Peter taught at the council that God showed not partiality between Jew and gentile (inferring neither should we ) , yet Peter in his behaviour did show partially.
Peter favoured to keep company with the Jews and not the new gentile believers.

Paul was not rebuking Peters teaching, Paul was holding Peter to his teaching but rebuking his hypocritical behaviour.

It didn’t matter who occupied the Chair of Moses or Chair of Peter, whether they were weak, stupid or evil it didn’t matter, God is still faithful to guide the flock through them.

 

My understanding of scripture is not my own or any other persons private interpretations of scripture.
It is 2000 year old Apostolic Tradition.

Think of the noble Bereans, they believed the spoken word of God Paul preached to them.
They referred to the Scriptures, but these weren’t a written set of the Gospels to confirm what Paul was teaching them was true. All they had in written form was Old Testament prophecy of the promised messiah to go by.
If they were scripture aloners, they would have rejected Paul’s new preached Gospel outright and kicked him out.

The Word of God comes down to us in two forms Spoken and Written, both abide forever and are of the same force.
Whole great crowds were converted by hearing the Gospel preached by the Spirit.
The Spoken Word of God we call Apostolic Tradition, this gives right understanding of the Written Word of God, guarded by The Holy Spirit down the ages Father to son in the preaching of the Church.

That is why Paul says “ Hold to the traditions we taught you, either by word of mouth or letter.”

Both together. Not scripture alone, that just leaves people exposed to every wind of doctrine, coming up with their own interpretations.

Many follow interpretive traditions of men without even knowing it, bits of Luther, Calvin and many others, these are not the ancient Apostolic understandings of Scripture handed down. These are traditions of men.

 

I used the scripture reference you gave in Matthew, even explained it to you in the ancient Apostolic understanding.

Jesus establishes His Apostolic Church on Peter, The Eternal Father speaks Infallibility through Peter the first time.

You say it was me that misunderstood this scripture, yet you haven’t said why.