Dennis ✝️🎮🏀🏈🇻🇦

The Institution of the Church is more important than the Bible - even if the people of said Church are fallible & the Bible is not. Protestants like to make the argument that the Bible, because it's infallible, is better... But that's just nonsense. It's like arguing the tool of the craftsman who created or assembled it, say a hammer- is more important than the craftsman. The hammer doesn't make mistakes & yet you can hurt yourself if you don't use it properly. The craftsman created the tool and knows how to use it best. Without the craftsman, the tool is just a lifeless object. In the same way, the Church gave us the Bible and knows how to interpret it properly. Without the Church, the Bible loses its full meaning and purpose. It's just a dusty book that doesn't do anything absent a mind reads & interprets it. The Church is essential because it not only assembled the Bible into existence but also ensures it is used correctly to guide us in faith. Essentially, Catholics use the Bible with an instruction manual of history, tradition & detailed experience over thousands of years to know how to use it. while Protestant just try to do it themselves arbitrarily & hope it works out.

Michelangelo was not only a genius & arguably the greatest artist after God ever - the huge stunt he took on Calvanism here is chefs kiss ❤️‍🔥

About 130 books where considered around 300-400 AD. It wasn't an obvious decision which is why the people who guided the Church got to use their God given authority to come up with final canon. 73 canon was by all metrics of evidence the final canon !!! Which is precisely why the people who guided the Church had to exercise the God-given authority entrusted to them to discern and establish the final canon. The 73-book Christian canon wasn't some random selection made out of nowhere. It was the result of the Church's discernment, rooted in apostolic tradition, the writings received by Christian communities, and the authority Christ entrusted to His Church. Councils such as Hippo (393 AD) and Carthage (397 AD) affirmed the 73-book canon, including the deuterocanonical books that Protestants later rejected during the Reformation. Much more - even 1500-1600 years later - Protestant weren't sure about 66 books. Luther hated multiple books, called the Letter of James famously "The Epistle of Straw", considered removing Hebrews, Revelation & Jude.. So on what basis do you even determine 66 right? On what basis ???? Here's the fundamental issue: if Scripture is the sole infallible authority, who has the final authority to determine which books actually belong in Scripture? The Bible doesn't contain its own inspired table of contents. You won't find a verse listing the 27 books of the New Testament, let alone one that identifies the complete 73-book Catholic canon. Protestants rely on the Bible as their ultimate authority, yet they also rely on the historical testimony and discernment of the early Church to know which writings constitute the Bible in the first place. That raises a serious question: why trust the early Church's judgment when it comes to recognizing the New Testament books, but reject its longstanding reception of the deuterocanonical books? Catholics don't believe the Church invented Scripture or made books inspired by declaring them so. Rather, the Church recognized the books that were inspired by God, exercising the authority Christ entrusted to her. The Church didn't create God's Word; she discerned and preserved it. Ultimately, the Catholic position is that Christ established a Church with real teaching authority, not merely a collection of believers left to determine the boundaries of Scripture independently. You cannot appeal to the Bible as your final authority without first answering the question of how you know which books belong in the Bible. That's where the Catholic understanding of Scripture, Tradition, and the Church's teaching authority becomes essential.