Yes and I will do the same with you. Continue to follow mere men for your eternity. Good luck with explaining that one to Christ. Even our Lord Jesus Christ, when not appealing to His own inherent authority, clinched His arguments with His opponents by saying, “It stands written!” or “Have you not read” in the Bible? He never said look to men or look to 'tradition'. He said, “Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me.” John 5:39 (ASV) In Jesus’ day, Jesus acknowledges that the appropriate approach to salvation was to search for it in the Scriptures! And you know, that in Jesus’ day, the scribes had about as much authority as has ever been given to human tradition. And yet, Jesus pointed them to the Scriptures, not to the oral tradition, not to the authority of the scribes, but to the Scriptures. And then He said, “The Scriptures bear witness of Me!”
I'll stick with Scripture because that's what HE told me to do. Thanks.
Chapter and verse and please keep in mind that the ONLY Scripture that He could have referred to is the Old Testament.
Here's the thing you don't understand --- we don't do this.
Your very conception of what it is we believe is flawed. We follow God the way we believe He revealed He desires.
Certainly the cacophany of UFO belief and splintering of Protestant groups gives some testimony to the usefulnes of an earthly, authoritative Churc guided by the Holy Spirit.
If we believed we were following mere men, we would be foolish. But we're not and attacking us on that misconception is never going to work.
Learn what we really believe and then try to debate us from a position of intellectual honesty. But beware, many before have studied the Church looking for the error and joined.
I do not follow mere men.
WELL SAID.
CHRIST THE MESSIAH.
ALPHA AND OMEGA.
KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS . . .
OUR ALL IN ALL.
ALL GLORY TO GOD
ALONE.
GOD ALONE ALWAYS AND FOREVER . . . not sharing His Glory with any flesh in any remotely God-head sort of way.