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Originally Posted by Jerok
Human judgment enters the equation, but as a Catholic I believe that God has guided His Church through the Holy Spirit, so that in matters of faith and morals it does not err (and the canonization of the scripture was a matter of faith and morals).
By the way, this is off topic, but I can see someone making this argument as to matters of faith, but the Church has a terrible record in the morals department. And I don't just mean the sex abuse scandals, but that's part of it.
The Church is also just wrong on a bunch of moral issues. Two of the biggest are condoms and divorce. The combination of those two means that an African woman whose husband contracts HIV cannot demand that he use a condom when he has sex with her and also cannot leave him for an HIV-negative, non-cheating sex partner.
The Church is dead wrong on non-marital sex. Following the Church's teachings means that people go into a marriage having no idea what they are doing in bed and no idea if their partner will be a fish in bed.
The Church is dead wrong on gays and lesbians. The Church is dead wrong on contraception. The Church is dead wrong on masturbation. The Church is wrong on stem cell research.
(The Church is wrong on abortion too, but that one, I will admit, is at least a tougher question. But the Church even denies that rape and incest victims or women whose lives are in danger can directly procure abortions, so I think that counts as a grave error as well.)
If the Church is actually inerrantly transmitting the word of God on moral issues, than that just proves that God is a complete imbecile.