Did Jesus Christ certify that the Apostles were infallible?
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The words used in this question, for example, “Errorless”, or by using open statements solely without proper parameters like “infallibility” without setting up boundaries makes the question easy to answer. No, Jesus never stated or certified that the apostles where errorless (In all Things) or infallible (In all things), ever.
I may be wrong but I feel this question is directed more to the Catholic Church than Christianity in General. Someone looking to confirm how the Church is unbiblical and teaching falsely, this has been my experience at any rate. It is often a stone that some stumble over when viewing The Church. In order to understand these things a proper understanding of what the Church claims, as infallibility would be needed.
I would suggest rewording the original question to:
“What biblical evidence, does the Church use to support the claim, of The Papal Office in the Roman Catholic Church, and under what grounds does it claim infallibility and its inability to teach error?”
I am not sure if I met the rules with my response. I am new here and this is my first post.
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Nowhere in the New Testament does it say that Jesus gave any kind of "certificate". He consecrated the Twelve as apostles, which vested in them certain powers. For example, Peter was given the power to "bind" (seal) on earth and to have that binding valid in heaven; likewise to "loose". He did not tell them they were infallible. These apostles knew they had been ordained by the Son of God; they probably did not feel the need for a piece of paper to prove that.
Later, when apostles sent others as emissaries, the apostle would send a letter to explain that that emissary was sent by authority of an apostle (as when Paul sent Timothy and Epaphroditus to Philippi, mentioned in Philippians 2). You could view such letters as a kind of certificate if you like.
It's not clear to me what you seek. If you believe the Apostles had divine authority, the existence or non-existence of some kind of "authentic certificate" would not change your view; and if you do not believe they had divine authority, even an authentic certificate might not convince you.
As for infallibility, I don't know of any Apostle claiming infallibility; as far as I know, that concept came into being in the Roman Catholic Church, after all the Apostles had been killed.
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