[Why Spiritual suicide? I’m a Bible believing Christian.]
If you were a Bible-believing Christian, you’d be in the Church, since the Church gave you the Bible in the first place, and since the Bible says that the Church is the pillar and foundation of the truth.
The Catholic Church is older than the New Testament, and is the group that decided that it WAS the New Testament.
The Holy Spirit gave us the Bible, not any church. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God.”
I went to 16 years of Catholic school and NEVER studied the Bible. Institutions are flawed, the Word is not.