Or if the Church is truly God’s church and He left us the Holy Spirit after Christ ascended, shouldn’t it have a central authority?
For so many a Christians that central authority is a book…. A collection of paper published and printed by by some modern company after a large team of translators argued about how best to present these ancient Greek and Hebrew works to today’s audience. Before that these many manuscripts had to be gathered, analyzed and reconstructed by teams of textual scholars arguing over the details. Before that these works had to be written, were probably rewritten, copied, read out loud and disseminated (sent all over the church) which had to recognize which of these books (among many options) represents the canon and reject the others.
In the end one can make the same argument about the Bible and sola scripture: it’s a “central authority and . . . roadblock to thoughtful theology.”
How does one exist in any organization without it having some sort of central authority or defining parameters?
Vinnie