The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"160 THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS.Popes are merely the custodians. If God couldmake man the organ of His revealed Word, is itfor Him to make man its infallible guarimpossibledian and interpreter? For, surely, greater is theApostle who gives us the inspired Word than thePope who preserves it from error.If, indeed, our Saviour had visibly remained amongus, no interpreter would be needed, since He wouldexplain His Gospel to us but as he; withdrew Hisvisible presence from us, it was eminently reasonablethat He should designate some one to expound forus the meaning of His Word.A Protestant Bishop, in the course of a sermonagainst Papal Infallibility, recently used the following language For my :part, I have an infallibleBible, and this is the only infallibility that I reThisquire." assertion, though plausible at firstsight, cannot for a moment stand the test of soundcriticism.Let us see, sir, whether an infallible Bible is sufficient for you. Either you are infallibly certainthat your interpretation of the Bible is correct, oryou are not.If you are infallibly certain, then you assert foryourself, and of course for every reader of the Scripture, a personal which infallibility you deny to thePope, and which we claim only for him. You makeevery man his own Pope.If you are not infallibly certain that you under-Btand the true meaning of the whole Bible, and