The Pope’s Biblical Study Commission
The pope, it is announced, has appointed a commission for the consideration of all questions connected with Biblical study. The work of the commission will be, it is stated, “to ascertain the limits of freedom to be allowed to the Catholic exegetist in regard to Biblical questions—to point out definitely what must be maintained and what rejected in the interests of orthodoxy, and what can be left to the individual conscience.” Christianity leaves everything to the individual conscience; conscience always to be guided, however, by the written Word, and enlightened by the Holy Spirit. Christianity makes the Holy Spirit the teacher; the papacy makes the priest, the pope, and the church council the teacher or teachers; thus putting the human in the place of the divine, and human salvation (which is no salvation) in the place of that which is from God.