You just described the process how it works to make the Roman Catholic teachings public. Other churches have their processes.
this doesn’t belong on a science thread but I will answer once,
Other churches don’t publish a detailed catechism.
The things you must accept to be Catholic have not changed.
Catholicism does it because it is the only church which is sure enough of what it believes.
But you will find very I’ll informed professional nit pickers like frank robert trying to pretend it changed stance on abortion ( as example) , His apologetics is as bad as his science. Aborton is and was a mortal sin, even from the first tines, The words used to describe it may change, the understanding evolves, but the meaning has not. Abortion is wrong. So nitpickers attack words.
As for others? Take what does Anglicanism stand for now? it’s hard to say.
Even on basics like Eucharist. it is part of why I left.
If I look across Protestantism, since the reformation I I can perm any combination:
( 5 or more flavours in each category )
From the meaning, applicability and process of baptism
From the meaning, applicability and process of eucharist
The necessity , role and need for succession in priesthood.
Etc etc etc
The necessity, meaning and role of the church,
The process for determining the meaning of scripture, the role and veracity of councill decisions
On once saved always saved, saved but can lose it, or not saved till just judge speaks.
on predestination single or double,
On remarriage, divorce , the method , meaning and restrictions,
On purgation, purgatory or how unclean things can enter heaven
And any flavour you like on a myriad of moral issues.
On end times,
Some pentecostalists don’t even believe in the trinity!
et etc.
As Luther observed, the result of empowering all to interpret scripture was “every Mikmaid now has their own doctrine”
Worst of all several flavours exist in the same church,
how? .When there is but one truth.
And in most of them, if you don’t like the current flavour invent your own. A schism.
It’s how the presbyterians got nick named the split P! The elders make it up as they go along.
Yet if we go back to scripture we see the process Jesus gave.
He didn’t give us a book, he gave apostles to hand down the truth the meaning of “ tradition”. Paradosis.
He gave them the power to “ bind and loose” jointly, and also to Peter alone To give definitive statement on meaning. He did not give that power to all.
He gave The power of apostolic succession , and that the church ( physical, ie household of God ) was then claimed as the “ foundation of truth” ( notice it says church not scripture)
. All christians owe a gratitude to the one church which in council chose the New Testament , without which no christian could trust ithe bible. Until Luther stripped it down and tried to modify it too! Such was his temerity, he tried to edit the bible to make it say what he believed instead!
Anyway this is a science forum. So on apologetics I will leave it there.
