The faith of our fathers - Carmel Apologetics

"INFALLIBLE AUTHORITY. 87for eight hundred years and The more."personalveracity of our Saviour and of the Reformers is hereat issue, for our Lord makes a statement which theycontradict. Who is to be believed, Jesus or the Reformers ?If the predictionof our Saviour about the preservation of His Church from error be false, thenJesus Christ is not God, since God cannot lie. Heis not even a Prophet, since He predictedfalsehood.Nay, He is an impostor, and all Christianity is amiserable failure and a huge deception, since it restson a false Prophet.But if Jesus predicted the truth when He declaredthat the gates of hell should not prevail againstHis Church, and who dare deny it? then theChurch never has, and never could have fallen fromthe truth ;then the Catholic Church is infallible, foishe alone claims that prerogative, and she is the onlyChurch that is acknowledged to have existed fromthe isbeginning. Truly Jesus that wise Architectmentioned in the Gospel, "who built his house upona rock ;and the rain fell, and the floods came, andthe winds blew, and they beat upon that house, andit fell not, for it was founded upon a rock." 1Jesus sends forth the Apostles with plenipotentiarypowers to preach the "AsGospel.the Father,"He says, hath sent Me, I also send a *you." "Goingtherefore, teach all nations, teaching them to observeall things whatsoever 1 have commanded you."3Matt. vii. 24, et seq.2John xx. 21.s Matt, xxviii. la, 20