I feel like this should be a red flag for Christians. At my most faithful I was always against Lutheranism and Calvinism too for the exact same reason.
So what did Christians do before the Bible was a thing? Before the biblical canon was established, some held The Shepherd of Hermas and other non-canonical books to be canonical, while other rejected Revelation or the Epistle of James. The books of the New Testament were not even completed until around 150, over a hundred years after Jesus’ crucifixion.
The Bible does not even declare itself to be the only source of true doctrine, so what authority decided that it was? 2 Thessalonians 2:15 says “So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word of mouth or by letter from us.” That’s more or less what the Church has always done. It doesn’t introduce brand new doctrines. Almost invariably, they have their roots in the earliest days of the Church.
Some hold Harry Potter to be canonical and some would claim the rearrangement of the stars into text as non-canonical.
Completed 150 AD? That’s MAJOR progress. The atheist claim used to be that it was all concocted by Constantine’s scribes around 330AD. The NT keeps being confirmed by the serious scholars as having been produced in it’s claimed timeframe before 90AD.
It’s VERY disturbing to see Catholics so radically devoted to discrediting the Bible. It’s for the purpose of maintaining their own Luciferian doctrines.
2Thes2:15 Instructs Christians to stand firm with what they were taught by letter or word BY THE APOSTLES AND DISCIPLES OF THE TIME OF 2THES. It certainly does not allow for any group of closeted homosexuals dressed as Harry Potter wizards to come along hundreds or thousands of years later and establish any new doctrinal whims because they formed a circle-jerk and voted that Peter would have been thrilled.
Do you remember being in kindergarten and playing a new game with other kids? Remember how the children would change the rules of the game on-the-fly? How ridiculous it ended up being? Yeah, Luciferians LLLLOOOOOOOOVVVVVVE having that kind of latitude, for obvious reasons. That the whole exercise becomes ridiculous and discredited is a TREMENDOUS bonus for them.
Bottom line, any instruction we receive must be closed and must not be so undeniable that it is like the teacher writing all the answers on the chalkboard before the math test.
Wadyakno, that’s exactly what we got.