THE MEANING OF DOGMAS CAN NEVER CHANGE OR CONTRADICT IT

The First Vatican Council, in the Constitution Son of God, Chapter 4, proclaimed:

“The doctrine of faith which God revealed was not presented as a philosophical discovery to be perfected by human ingenuity, but handed down as a divine deposit to the Bride of Christ to be faithfully guarded and infallibly declared. Therefore, that meaning of the sacred dogmas which Holy Mother Church declared once and for all must be maintained in perpetuity, and one must never depart from that meaning.”

Then, in Canon 3 on Faith and Reason, it decrees: “If anyone asserts that, after the dogmas have been established by the Church, a meaning different from that which the Church understood and understands should ever be attributed to them according to the progress of knowledge, let him be anathema.”

THE DEFINITION OF DOGMS IS PERPETUAL

 “For the doctrine of faith that God has revealed has not been proposed like a philosophical system to be perfected by human ingenuity; rather, it has been committed to the spouse of Christ as a divine trust to be faithfully kept and infallibly declared. Hence also that meaning of the sacred dogmas is perpetually to be retained which Our Holy Mother Church has once declared, and there must never be a deviation from that meaning on the specious ground and title of a more profound understanding.”

 (D, 1800) (VATICAN COUNCIL I).

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