✝️ Who gave the Catholic Church authority to teach?
Jesus Christ did.
Christ did not leave His revealed truth to the changing opinions of each generation. He entrusted the Deposit of Faith to His Apostles, commanded them to teach all nations, and established His Church to guard, explain, defend, and faithfully transmit what God had revealed.
📖 “He that heareth you, heareth me.” — Luke 10:16
The Church is not the source of Divine Revelation. God is. Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition contain the revealed Deposit entrusted to the Church.
The Church’s Magisterium—her teaching authority—exists to authentically teach that Deposit. It may explain revealed doctrine more explicitly and define it more precisely, but it has no authority to invent a new revelation or contradict what God has already revealed.
This is the essential distinction:
🔹 God reveals the truth.
🔹 Christ entrusts it to His Apostles.
🔹 The Church receives and guards the Deposit.
🔹 The Magisterium faithfully teaches what has been handed down.
The Catholic Church does not decide what becomes true. Her sacred responsibility is to preserve and transmit the truth she received from Christ.
