**The first thing to understand, and a fact that can hardly be denied, is that the creation of the Catholic Church preceded the creation of the New Testament.**
Bingo! You win, Catholics!
I guess that that is the trouble.
Morphing croquet into cricket and then into baseball and trying to tell everyone that the rules of baseball are really the way croquet was intended, and that anyone who plays croquet as it originally was is wrong.
If people want to split from the Church and create their own belief systems, then that is their free will. Just don’t claim that you are really the Church as originally intended. You want to be your own Pope and indulge in your own personal interpretation of Scripture, then that’s your free will.
Just be careful of what Jesus said about the little children. Exposing them to false doctrines could be the equivalent of keeping them away from Him.