***Equal...and still not in need of a black robed hood pretending to have spiritual authority over others.***
You consider yourself equal to somebody that the Lord God Almighty converted in a lightning flash and became the second greatest Apostle of the Lord?
Hubris is as hubris does.
Still, the Scriptural proofs of the authority of the Church appear to have escaped you? Hmm, I’d say that this is a considerable repudiation of the false doctrines that arose from the Reformation, and for 15 centuries before that.
Jesus Christ created the Church and the Holy Spirit commissioned it at Pentecost. You have the free choice to reject it but that carries with it certain penalties.
Not nearly the penalties associated with troubling the saints with your popish doctrines. Nuff said.