Cherry picking fragments of verses to make Scripture say what you want is no way to correctly interpret Scripture.
Jesus never gave the command *Listen to the church* ANYWHERE in Scripture. Those words are found in Matthew where Jesus is addressing how to deal with disputes between individual believers and He says that IF a man will not listen to reason, then to take it to the church and if he won’t listen even them to treat him as an unbeliever.
It is NOT a command to submit to the *Church*, meaning the Roman one.
Non-Catholics are being CONSTANTLY disparaged and dismissed with accusations of taking *snippets* of Scripture to make it say what we want.
What makes it OK for a Catholic to do it and not others?
Don’t be hypocritical.
 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' |