Catholics like to trot out the names of the likes of David Koresh and others who have misused scripture but overlook their own evil popes, bishops, and priests throughout history and even today. One can only think hypocrites.
Catholics like to claim ownership of scripture yet can't justify many of their own beliefs or practices with it. Scripture says the word of God was entrusted to the Jews yet Catholics add books that the Jews denied as scripture.
Catholics by their own admission incorporate pagan beliefs and practices which God clearly condemned.
Scripture clearly states that each true believer would have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to guide and teach not some "theologians and eminent scholars". Jesus said wherever two or three were gathered in His name He would be with them not confined to some so called sacred cracker.
Christ is building His assembly from the lowly of this world not the pompous and arrogant Nicolaitan "theologians and eminent scholars" who He called vipers and hypocrites.
This is beyond absurd. By your lights the early Church Fathers (theologians) were vipers etc... who assembled the authentic Word of God. This is the sad rebuttal of Protestants who are accustomed to swimming in the very shallow end of the theological pool, taken them to the deep end of the pool they down.
Thus the great saints and theologians of our times, the martyrs, and stigmatists all got it wrong until the curse of Protestantism came upon the earth ELEVEN centuries after the Synod of Rome in AD 382.
The point of course, is that the more true and honest scholarship inquiry takes place, Protestantism is exposed for what its worth, a shallow and erroneous view of scripture from the vapid interpretations of Billy Graham to Jim Jones and David Koresh and everything else in between. This is all fine for low-information Christians but pleas refrain from telling the Catholic Church with its rich tradition of towering intellectuals and theologians what is God’s Word. That is too much effrontery to bear.