On the Removal of Denominationalism and the Associated Doctrinal Confusion through an Argument for Public Revelation's Co-Natural Union to a Divinely Instituted Public Authority.

According to the Roman Catholic Church, the sources of divine revelation are 1) scripture, 2) the magisterium which teaches via the Popes and bishops within church councils, 3) tradition including, the liturgy and the church fathers. According to Protestantism, the source of divine revelation is the scriptures subject to the private interpretation of the believer with the assistance of information gathered from the church fathers. The only and binding source of divine revelation is the scriptures. Consequent to the approach taken by Protestantism, to reduce the understanding of revelation to the private judgment of the believer, there are currently now about 30,000 denominations with many conflicting doctrinal beliefs and practices.

The existence of the many Protestant denominations with their many conflicting beliefs and practices is a strong indication of the error of private interpretation embraced by Protestants. The error of private interpretation and the many resulting contradictions within Protestantism also provides an occasion to demonstrate the necessity of an institution found upon and preserved by the divine power that acts with divine revelation to preserve, protect, teach and promote the content of divine revelation without error.

To both avoid a multiplicity of errors, and promote divine truths throughout history, divine revelation then requires a teaching authority within the church that is both instituted and protected from error by God. Such an institution is then co-natural with the content of the sacred deposit of faith, to act as God's mouthpiece on Earth on matters of faith. 

Conclusion - the nature of divine revelation as divine truth given within history, and the fallen nature of man with its propensity to fall into error, requires a divinely instituted church with the powers to teach divine revelation without error. Such a church is recorded within the new testament as having the powers to bind and loose (Matt 16:18-20, 18:18) and as the source of all divine truth (1 Tim 3:15). The existence of the church which alone can trace itself back to Christ and the apostles and has strong evidence within church history is then the church that has the powers to teach the content of divine revelation. The church is then both the protector of divine truth and the intellectual saviour of mankind who has a propensity to fall into a multitude of errors on matters of faith.

It is natural for divine revelation to account for the weaknesses of human nature that causes sin and division. As divine revelation has been given by God to save men from sin, it is co-natural for divine revelation to be promulgated by a divine public institution that publically promotes divine truth and publically protects men from errors against divine truth.

As a divinely founded institution as the church, is connatural with divine revelation and divine revelation occurred in history, the church of history is the guardian and promoter of divine revelation. That church which is connatural with divine revelation is the Roman Catholic church, for it alone has the content of faith and practice found in history from Christ and the apostles.