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title: 'Abraham B. Van Zandt Contrasts Protestant Creeds With ‘Infallible’ Roman Catholic Dogma'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2022-11-16
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2022-abraham-b-van-zandt-contrasts-protestant-creeds-with-infallible-roman-catholic-dogma
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# Abraham B. Van Zandt Contrasts Protestant Creeds With ‘Infallible’ Roman Catholic Dogma

“We are all agreed that the Scriptures are an infallible guide, an ultimate appeal, and that every man is bound to imitate the noble Bereans, and to the extent of his ability ‘search the Scriptures,’ in settling his convictions of truth. But then it happens, that we are not all agreed as to what the Scriptures do actually teach. What then? Two alternatives are before us. We may fall back upon a so-called infallible church, and, in the face of palpable contradictions, and festering corruptions, accept her decrees as the articulate voice of God; or, we may consent that every man shall be ‘fully persuaded in his own mind,’ and so far as men so persuaded are agreed, we may consent that they should also ‘walk together by the same rule,’ fully expecting that, in the progressive development of truth, God will bring them into nearer accord, if not by removing all grounds of difference, yet by reducing them to those matters concerning which men may differ, and yet maintain ‘the unity of the Spirit, in the bonds of peace.’” — [Abraham Brooks Van Zandt](/authors/abraham-brooks-van-zandt), *Creeds and Subscriptions to Creeds* (1880)