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.
I beg to differ. You all seem to think that you read the Bible infallibly, but I don't see that you do. If you did, there wouldn't be so many sects of non-Catholics all disagreeing with what the Bible says.
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.
Oh please! Come on now, get serious. How many of you follow what your preachers say and do? Going to hell over that are you? Are you following Satan when you sit in the pews on Sunday morning nodding your head in agreement with your pastor? Man, what an analogy!
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.
Well, you just contradicted yourself there didn't you? If wise men and women can help you along the way, but you aren't to follow anyone but Christ, you better not listen to them either.
Disagree with the Papacy all you want. At least it has kept the Catholic Church going for 2,000+ years now while the non-Catholic churches continue to splinter and fall apart theologically.