Christianity, in its best moments has always believed that our faith rests only on the Bible... and that these Scriptures were given without error."For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning.'"If only we had always all been consistent with this...
-Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica I.Q1. 8
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