(February 29, 2016 at 1:31 pm)Jenny A Wrote: The church was the last authority until it choose the Bible as the last authority. And in the case of some sects the church remained the last authority. Catholicism is one such sect.
Yet there wasn't even one church before 325, with the council of Nicea. And there wasn't even one bible nbefore very much later in the 4th century. They kept bickering about what to leave out, what to edit and what to take. Only in 385 they became the church of Rome and had the power to crunch all the other disagreeing factions within their reach. And, as you already pointed out, it has always been much more the church of Paul than the one of Jesus. A misogynist and supporter of everyone knowing their place. Including slaves.