The word
"infallibility" means that someone or something is incapable of making mistakes or being wrong. It suggests that they are always right and can be trusted to be accurate.
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As R.Pollock would say, the degree of
infallibility of dating methods becomes risky the older the material to be tested, is.
First, I no longer believe
in infallibility, and I believe in a very «light» form of inspiration.
Many people, evangelicals and Catholics alike, confuse papal
infallibility with papal sinlessness.
Because she is not God, former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman - Rawlings can not
claim infallibility as far as her views on the number of «NHIS voters» is concerned, a former spokesperson and aide to the Rawlingses, Mr Kofi Adams has said.
What has not been realized is Ullathorne's contribution to the Decree
on Infallibility at Vatican I. Ullathorne had a great affection for Pius IX (they became bishop in the same year) but this was balanced by his view of the episcopacy.
Donald Keogh, the sixty year business veteran and two decade CEO of Coca - Cola, cited the assumption of
infallibility as one of the «The Ten Commandments for Business Failure».
Much has been made of Newman's reluctance to an extension of papal
infallibility which would exact from all the faithful, «the most unreserved submission to whatever they might decree.»
To refer to it as infallible, as tens of millions of Christians do, is «to say the least, extremely misleading» — apparently, doctrines such as
infallibility only began to spring up after the invention of the printing press.
It was liberal ultramontanism, and not a neo-medieval commitment to papal absolutism, that informed the Declaration of Papal
Infallibility at Vatican I.
Strange that they should imagine that they are not
assuming infallibility, when they acknowledge that there should be free discussion on all subjects which can possibly be doubtful, but think that some particular principle or doctrine should be forbidden to be questioned because it is so certain, that is, because they are certain that it is certain.
But high probability does not mean
infallibility so every trading analysis includes the condition which signals that the analysis is incorrect.
Our deepest divisions concern theology and doctrine, and this problem admits of no immediately obvious remedy, because both churches are so fearfully burdened
by infallibility.
Another motive for avoiding an ex cathedra definition may have been the ongoing debate about whether papal
infallibility extends to specific principles of natural law unless they are clearly taught in revelation itself.
So we must also come to understand, withrenewed wonder and gratitude, how the Magisterium of the Word made Flesh lives and speaks in the Church with divinely
guaranteed infallibility in the essentials of belief and moral principle until the end of the world.
To Evangelicals it appears that, in practice if not in theory, the Catholic understanding of Magisterium,
including infallibility, results in the Roman Catholic Church standing in judgment over Scripture, instead of vice versa.
If nothing less, the Church has taken a step back from its prevailing view of
infallibility within its walls.
Any sort of «
creeping infallibility» that would attach the same level of authority to every papal utterance or document must be avoided.
Calvin and Luther put the pope in a practical and theoretical dilemma by condemning his Godlike
infallibility while at the same time not failing to offer the pope the model of God's fallibility and accountability in Christ.
Your alarms will play even if your Echo Spot loses Internet connectivity, although it does not have a backup battery, so don't count on
total infallibility.
They resolve the problem by means of two carefully worded affirmations: either one affirms that the Bible is inerrant whenever it speaks on its intended subject in its own way, or one holds that inerrancy and
infallibility really mean that the Bible is reliable / trustworthy regarding the gospel.
By dramatizing John Brown's fight for racial freedom and belief in his own
divine infallibility through the eyes of a child fearful of becoming a man, McBride brings fresh immediacy to a sobering chapter in American history.
He was, after all, widely acknowledged as the world's leading nuclear experimentalist (and was no slouch as a theorist either); colleagues referred to him as «The Pope» because of his
supposed infallibility.
People in our open society do not demand
infallibility from their institutions, but it is difficult for them to accept what they are prohibited from observing.
Other Lutherans
understand infallibility and inerrancy to refer to issues essential to the Gospel, and they would not insist, as would Missourians, that skepticism concerning, say, the historicity of Adam and Eve undermines scriptural authority.
In fact, as a committed Protestant, I can only regard his elevation of tradition to
functional infallibility as an accommodation to Catholic theology.
The doctrine of Papal
Infallibility merely correctly predicts that the Pope will, as a matter of fact, never formally teach error.
The real reason that so many people insist on the divinely -
inspired infallibility of the Bible is a very understandable and very human one: they are trying to fulfill their need for security.
The gift of papal
infallibility flows not from our need for certainty, but from God's desire that we know with certitude those truths necessary for our salvation.
With the
Popes infallibility, he can bang little boys all he wants with no Catholic laws being broken, because if he does it, then it's legal...
If he was infallible,
infallibility becomes a Christian norm; thus we strive for perfect faith, true - to - the - letter Scriptures or absolute doctrines.
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