If your Sola Scriptura is so darn great and perfect, why do so many of you disagree? Which one of you is right? Is it the Methodists, the Baptists, the Presbyterians, the Lutherans, the Pentecostals, etc?
It's actually laughable how you make fun of the Pope when in fact each of you have set yourselves up as infallible little popes with your "Sola Scriptura allows me to interpret the Bible correctly!"
OOHH, ouch, I am wounded.
First off, the main stream Protestants are basically still Catholic...
Don't forget, there are almost as branches of the Catholic church as there are Protestants...
But the answer to your question is simple...It's a matter of disbelief...
Pentecostals: For an example, they hang in there with the spiritual gifts...They don't believe the bible when it says the gifts are for a sign to the Jews...They don't believe the bible when it says that tongues are a foreign language and they don't believe you always need an interpreter when speaking in tongues even when the bible says differently...
Mormons: They don't believe in the Trinity even tho the bible is clear on the Father, Son and Holy Spirit...They have another book besides the bible...
7th Day Adventists: These folks are living under the law and worship on the Sabbath...Unbiblical...
Methodists: Historically, Methodists were bible believers...I know a couple that attended a Methodist church for 6 years...They claim they never heard the plan of Salvation til they left the church...
Presbyterians, Anglicans: For example: Luk 20:46 Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
Luk 20:47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Catholic: Mat 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
The divisions come from disbelief...They either don't compare scripture with scripture for a correct interpretation, or they chose not to believe what the bible says and add to or take away from it...
No one is their own Pope in any Christian environment. However, all are solely responsible for their own salvation.
This requires personal understanding, starting with the simplest faith BUT NOT ENDING THERE. From there, we must grow in our walk, our faith, and our understanding. We can't rely on another for any of that and we shouldn't when we have the letters of the New Testament available to us.
With the Pope being as infallible as the rest of us simply because he is human, then we are as damned to Hell if we follow Him as if we follow Satan.
We are not to follow ANY MAN BUT CHRIST in His example. That said, wise men and women can help us along on our way.