I grew in understanding and came to much the same conclusion about the Bible that you did. I don’t believe everything in the Bible is absolutely literal. I do believe that the concepts as viewed by Hebraic peoples who lived in that particular period are passed on to us as they wrote them. But just as peoples once believed the earth was flat (it was true to their understanding) we now recognize as not correct from OUR understanding. And at some point in the future people will scoff at our ideas.
I didn’t come to these conclusions via the same path as you, or through any connection with the RC, but through experience and through searching. God enlightens us and brings us to him. He uses different tools in shaping us.
This is why I tell my testimony to Mormons. Perhaps I am mistaken, and they do understand Christ, Salvation, the Bible and God. I know that Mormonism does not necessarily lead one to that understanding. Catholicism does not necessarily lead to the understanding either, nor does Protestantism. God is the only one who can. We discover Him through the Bible, and/or through the Church. They are dependent upon each other. For if the Bible was not a necessary component and the Word also, then why do they both testify of the other?
For if the Bible Church was not a necessary component and the Word also, then why do they both testify of the other?