(September 30, 2023 at 3:33 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(August 31, 2023 at 7:49 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Basically, then, the Pauline texts would be considered by most traditional Christians to be a mix of Paul's opinions and recollections and things passed to him directly by revelation, but all are divinely inspired and suitable in a special way for use by the church.
That sounds like a mess. I guess Paul then represents the clergy or the head of the church - people of authority in religious business - who still speak in the name of Jesus (god) with a mix of their opinions which frequently don't have much to do with gospels.
I mean many people today still claim to be apostles, talking to Jesus, etc. but they are not in the Bible.
Like, there are perhaps hundreds of thousands of Catholics who believe that women in Bosnia talk directly to the Virgin Mary every day, so you would think that what Mary has to say would be worth adding as a new book in the Bible.
But I guess I am going off-topic now.
Well, first it needs to be written down. But more importantly, the Catholic church doesn't need to add anything more to the Bible when it nevertheless upholds various holy writings/instructions besides what's in the Bible. For the Catholic church, and the Christian church in general, the Bible is a historical collection of works upheld as sacred, but not a still evergrowing body of godly instructions. The Bible canon has long been established, it's history now.
