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If you read the scripture and arrive to a conclusion not compatible with the prectices of the early Church, you should know that your private interpretation is invalid.

Now in 2 Timothy 2:15 where Paul instructs the early Christians to "study to show yourself approved of God." Or in 2 Timothy 3:16 which says, "All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine,for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness." This would go against this man-made doctrine of needing the "Magisterium" to interpret it for you.

This touches on something I mentioned before...whose Bible are you using. The KJV is based primarily on Byzantine texts (That many "church fathers"...Justin the Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian to name a few...quote repeatedly from) and Catholic bibles rely on inconsistant Egyptian or Alexandrian texts.

KJV is based primarily on Byzantine texts (That many "church fathers"...Justin the Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian to name a few...quote repeatedly from) and Catholic bibles rely on inconsistant Egyptian or Alexandrian texts.

This sounds like one of those fantastic Protestant fables. Do you have a source we can look into? Alexandrian texts are the Septuagint that is the foundation of the Greek (a.k.a. Byzantine) Bible. Jerome, if anything, erred by not looking enough into the Septuagint and instead relying too much on contemporary to him Jewish rabbinical sources. I am pinging people who know more than I do on this.