The Church hasn't reversed anything but reformulated a paragraph that applied to the 14 century when there was only one church. "No salvation outside the only church that existed at the time." It's a no brainer. The Church includes all baptized as Christians, but nothing the Church does will ever be good enough for some people. She hands out an olive branch and you spit on it.
Infallibility does not come from popes, bishops or councils. It comes from the words of Jesus and His promise He would always be with us. It is a charism that prevents the Church from teaching error. The pope alone is not infallible.
Matt. 10:20; Luke 12:12 - Jesus tells His apostles it is not they who speak, but the Spirit of their Father speaking through them. If the Spirit is the one speaking and leading the Church, the Church cannot err on matters of faith and morals.
Matt. 16:18 - Jesus promises the gates of Hades would never prevail against the Church. This requires that the Church teach infallibly. If the Church did not have the gift of infallibility, the gates of Hades and error would prevail. Also, since the Catholic Church was the only Church that existed up until the Reformation, those who follow the Protestant reformers call Christ a liar by saying that Hades did prevail.
Matt. 16:19 - for Jesus to give Peter and the apostles, mere human beings, the authority to bind in heaven what they bound on earth requires infallibility. This is a gift of the Holy Spirit and has nothing to do with the holiness of the person receiving the gift.
Matt. 18:17-18 - the Church (not Scripture) is the final authority on questions of the faith. This demands infallibility when teaching the faith. She must be prevented from teaching error in order to lead her members to the fullness of salvation.
Matt. 28:20 - Jesus promises that He will be with the Church always. Jesus' presence in the Church assures infallible teaching on faith and morals. With Jesus present, we can never be deceived.
The sola scriptura mindset causes a kind of scriptural blindness, necessitating re-definitions or straw man opposition against the true meaning of infallibility. Sola scriptura MUST reject what the Bible teaches about infallibility.
The Bible repeatedly teaches that the Church is indefectible; therefore, the hypothetical of rejecting the (one true, historic) Church, as supposedly going against the Bible, is impossible according to the Bible. It is not a situation that would ever come up, because of God’s promised protection.
What the Bible says is to reject those who cause divisions, which is the very essence of the onset of Protestantism: schism, sectarianism, and division. It is Protestantism that departed from the historic Church, which is indefectible and infallible (see also 1 Tim 3:15).
Why don't you give your "correct" interpretation of Augustine, Cyprian and Ambrose as they apply to the relevant paragraphs? You judge the catechism based on one page? I can recommend a pill for that.
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Save your red pill for Revelation 18 when God puts an end to the false Roman religious organization..
The infallible religious organization, run by an infallible mortal, and they do not honour God by keeping His commandments...they abandon the first four commandments to which is a direct flaunting of God and His creation....their reasoning seems to be their infallible leader in Rome is the only one they need to follow....