Sorry, but I take THIS '"authority's" word, instead of you.
NIV 2 Corinthians 1:12-14
12. Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God. We have done so not according to worldly wisdom but according to God's grace.
13. For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that,
14. as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.
There is no need to apologize if you are right. But you are already assuming that you have the authority to determine who has Church authority, when you interpret 2 Cor 1:12-14 as implying that there is no need for Church authority with regard to the meaning of Scripture. In other words, you are begging the question, assuming the conclusion you are trying to prove. You are, for example, assuming that what Paul writes in 2 Cor 1:13 applies to everything in the Bible. Peter himself refutes you, since Peter says that some of the things Paul writes are
"hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction." (2 Pet 3:16)
You yourself are "untaught"; in fact, you deny the very need for a teacher or teachers with regard to understanding the Bible and Christian theology. I have already pointed out that the existence of 30,000 Protestant denominations (since publishers started putting Bible's into every person's hands), shows clearly that your interpretation of 2 Cor 1:13 is not correct. Paul wrote in Greek. But already you have need of someone to translate what Paul wrote into English. So, since you don't read Greek, everything Paul wrote is, without some human help either to translate or teach you Greek, something you cannot "read" or "understand". Why is that so hard to understand? Do you think Paul wrote in English?
One of the worst situations to be in is to not know that you don't know.
-A8