Hong’s Cave

I was expecting a bit more scholastic reading. However, this turned about to be an essay trying to explain that the Roman Catholic Church is the only authority on the Bible.

His logic seems to be that even before the words were written down the teachings were done by the church, starting with the first disciples. He continues that the church (i.e, Roman Catholic Church being the “heir” to the first church) decided which books to include in the Bible and how it should be interpreted and translated into other languages (from Hebrew and Greek manuscripts). So, he says that it is absurd to claim that only the Bible is the truth because without the church to guide it is very easy to wrong interpretations.

Anyway, the essay was written more than a century ago, and I think this was a part of things he did to explain his transition from a Scottish protestant priesthood to a Roman Catholic one. I thought the basic argument was basically that, but he was going on and on about it. Not that informative.