Question

“the gospel (words of jesus) alone is sufficient to rule the lives of christians everywhere- and additional rules made to govern men’s conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the gospel of jesus christ.”

what does the qoute above illustrate about the critiques against the catholic church?
-people were unhappy about the money that the church was making
-people were unhappy that the church was too involved in government
-people felt like the church was not enough involved with the lives of their followers
-people were unhappy about all the rules that the church created to govern their followers

Answer 1

I interpret it as:

1. Nothing is above the gospel (not even law, which maybe a correlation to “additional rules”)

2. The church is utilising faith as a means to dismiss the law if it does allign with what is being said through the gospel.

3. Ignoring “additional rules” to say that the gospel is sufficient enough puts the church over the state

these are infrences that may be wrong though.