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Originally Posted by Actor
I.e., let other people do your thinking for you.
How does the church guarantee it? My car came with a guarantee. If it fails the dealer fixes it. If I die and it turns out the one true religion is Hinduism how does the church fix it? It can't. Any guarantee by the church that its teachings are "valid" is worthless.
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Church existed
before the New Testament..
It is the Church, who though the Ecumenical Councils specified the canon Of the New Testament, identifying the twenty-seven divinely inspired books while rejecting the Apocrypha. This is exactly what we mean when we say that the Church
guarantees the validity and authority of the Bible.
These Fathers of the Church , who decided what to include and what to reject to the canon of the Bible, interpreted them and were accepted by the fullness of the Church as inspired by the Holly Spirit.
The Bible has only one and extremely consistent interpretation, and this is the one that was provided to us by the Holly Tradition,
the Seven Ecumenical Councils and the Fathers of the Church like
John Chrysostom,
Gregory of Nyssa,
Basil The Great ,
Maximus the Confessor and
John of Damascus, just to name a few.
