A Universal Apology Point Four: ON SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY

ON SCRIPTURAL AUTHORITY

I am recounting in chronological order the several reasons I have for accepting that the Catholic Church is what she says she is.

Since the time, back when I was an atheist, when I first came across the controversy over Church authority to define canon, I have since only heard two additional arguments which support the Protestant side. Both arguments claim an independent, self-defining or self-authorizing authority for scripture.

One was from a Protestant theologian who is so wise and learned, and so clear and logical in his thinking that I tremble to disagree with him. He made this statement: “It is wrong to say that the Church formed the canon of scripture; the scripture formed the Church!”

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