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>will you address this argument?
It would be my pleasure, rodent.
>Without an infallible interpretive authority, all interpretations of Scripture are fallible.
All human interpretations of Scripture are fallible because humans are fallible. The Bible is clear: While we are yet in this flesh we can not be without sin. Thus, even if we had the infallible interpretive authority (I do, more on that below), we are still prone to making mistakes in interpretation.
>Fallible interpretations cannot result in certainty about the meaning of an infallible text.
Incorrect. For example, you are a committed enemy of the gospel. You are certain about your interpretation, even though you are objectively wrong.
>Therefore,
You began. with a false premise, so your conclusion is not sound.
Your score: 0/1
>Determining which books belong in Scripture requires an authority external to those books.
This is wrong because, as it happens, the infallible interpretive authority you mentioned in the first argument does in fact exist in the person of the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor 2, KJV) Now observe:
The Holy Ghost is the author and interpreter of the King James Bible.
Furthermore, Jesus is the King James Bible.
Jesus and the Holy Ghost are two persons of the same God.
Jesus and the Holy Ghost are always in agreement, the latter taking orders from the former.
In this sense, Jesus and the Holy Ghost are not external to each other.
Therefore, the King James Bible and the Holy Ghost are not external to each other.
Therefore, the canonicity of the text of the King James Bible does not require an authority external to itself.
QED
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