2a-Rule of Faith index

<http://www.cin.org/users/jgallegos/contents.htm> The Bible states in1 Timothy 3:15, "The church is the pillar and foundation of truth."

Cardinal Henery Neuman was a convert from Calvinism to the Anglican Church and finally to the Catholic Church. He stated “to be deep in the study of the History of the church is to cease to be Protestant”. Its Collary is also true, “to be deep in the study of the History of the church is to become Catholic”.

Rules for interpreting Scripture: Established by Pope Leo XIII in Providentissimus Deus (1893) seconded and confirmed by Pope Benedict XV in Spiritus Paraclitus (1920) and by Pope Pius XII in Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943) Pope Pius XII declared in Divino... that Leo’s encyclical Providentisisimus for interpreting the bible to "the supreme guide in Biblical studies"

Four rules for interpreting the Bible for the Catholic Church 1. Always pay attention to the Magisterium the authority of the Church 2. Beguided by what the early fathershad to say about a particular passage.

3. Always to be guided by what the Bible has to say as a whole (not key phrases here and there for defining ones theology and ignoring passages which do not fit one’s theology, see opening quote) 4. Always take the Bible Literally unless it is reasonably unattenable

I will maintain that a anyone who follows the last three rules will well over 90% of the time arrive at the same truths as the Catholic Church!! The true church must be that church which follows the teachings of those immediate successors of the Apostles. These are the Apostolic fathers who learned the faith at the foot of the Apostles. The Catholic church teaches the same things as those taught by the Apostolic fathers. It has not veered to the left or ritght but teaches the same today. If a Church comes a long 1,500 years later and teaches something different how can they have the truth. They claim truth based on their own authority yet teach things that are in contradiction to the Apostolic fathers. While they maintain a portion of the same teachings as the Apostolic teachings professing Christ as redeemer and savior and hence have portion of the Catholic heritage never the less they only have a portion of the loaf of bread. For since the Catholic churche teaches the same as the Apostolic Fathers only they have the complete loaf of bread.

    Rule of faith. The Catholic Church’s rule of faith consists of the Bible, Tradition and a teaching Church.The Church Fathers unanimously affirm this three-fold rule of faith.

Scripture: This document contains a dossier of passages from the Church Fathers illustrating the authority of Scripture. The Fathers affirmed the sufficiency of the Scripture not in a vacuum rather within the context of an authoritative Tradition and a teaching Church. The Inspired Scripture: The Fathers affirmed the inspiration and divine origin of Sacred Scripture.

Free From All Error: This document contains passages from the Church Fathers illustrating the belief in the inerrancy of Scripture. According to the Fathers Scripture is free from all error. This section is dedicated to Fr. William Most(+Jan 31,1999).

Tradition: This document contains an extensive dossier of passages from the Church Fathers illustrating the coordinate and normative authority of Tradition.

Private Interpretation: This document contains passages from the Church Fathers illustrating heretics’ fatal flaw in interpreting Scripture apart from Church and Tradition.

Interpreting Scripture with the eyes of the Church: The Church Fathers together proclaimed that authentic and orthodox interpretation of Scripture can only be obtained if one understands Scripture according to the faith of the Church. The Fathers never wanted to be considered private exegetes or dared to be innovative in their approach to interpreting Scripture. The Fathers had only one goal in mind when interpreting Scripture -- to teach the apostolic doctrine as it was taught to them. The heretics on the other hand jettisoned Mother Church and her teaching and replaced it with their own private understanding.

Sola Scriptura in the Early Church: There are preachers in the early Church that adhered to the formal principle of sola scriptura; however, despite their common belief in appealing to the Scriptures alone they disagreed with one another.