Understanding the Limits of Infallibility in Church Teachings

DAY 292 CHALLENGE “If the Church can teach infallibly, why doesn’t it go ahead and teach everything infallibly?” DEFENSE Because it is not God’s will. Consider a parallel: The New Testament authors wrote under the charism of inspiration (2 Tim. 3:16), which is greater than and includes infallibility. If it was God’s will, he could’ve had them write a single, systematic theology textbook with every proposition he wished to reveal to man carefully explained, yet he chose not to. We can speculate on why, but it is clear he chose not to or it would have happened. If that was God’s will whe...