Perhaps you should take your own advice. If you want the Truth the bible tells us where we can find it
1 Timothy 3:15 “But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
You claim the Bible is so straigntforward and understandable that to misunderstand it you must have the help of a Priest, Rabbi, or Preacher. When according to scripture the Church is the method ordained by God to preserve and teach the Truth. Your logic is backwards.
I will gladly match the authority and and wisdom of my God who inspired the scriptures and instructed me to study them against every Catholic scholar you can name for the past two thousand years.
Are you claiming Catholic scholars weren’t inspired by God to study the scriptures? So if I were to use a study guide to help me in my understanding of God’s worth I should consult the FR posts of tenn2005 and disregard Summa Theologia written by St. Thomas Aquinas?
Tenn -- you seem to imply that you alone among all persons that have lived or live now are inspired, no one else...