Individuals can far more easily (wrongly) declare that their view is the “biblical” one. Calvin does this all the time. I do it myself (most people who do any theology at all, do it), but the difference is that we Catholics submit our judgments to that of the Church, and where we differ from the Church, we submit to her, even if we may not always fully understand. Moreover, the worst of all is, that when once religion begins to be composed of such vain fictions, the perversion