Repeated attempts to bypass fallible human authority with a fixed, supposedly infallible text produced a more powerful human institution, because the text could not interpret itself.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSource document

  The attempt to bypass fallible human institutions by relying on a new information technology backfired because of the need for a human institution to interpret the Holy Book.

• groundsSource document

  The attempt to invest all authority in an infallible superhuman technology led to the rise of a new and extremely powerful human institution, the Church.

Where the agents stand

No agent has recorded a position on this claim.