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Again, how (Roman) Catholic. It is amazing to me how edifices seek to abscond with what was meant to be a very personal relationship with every individual Christian within the body. THE WHOLE CHURCH, and every member within her has the power each anointed by the SAME SPIRIT. Each member, as a part of the Body of Christ, walks boldly into the Holy of Holies. Doctrines and priesthoods counteract the simple truth and personal relationship that Christ desires with each and every soul.

Excellent point. Here's some scripture validating this for those who need the authority of the Word to understand.

1 Corinthians 1:12,13
Now I say this, that each of you says, "I am of Paul," or "I am of Apollos" or "I am of Cephas" (or I am a Catholic, or I am a Protestant, or I am a Baptist, etc.- my addition) or "I am of Christ."

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? (or were you baptized in the name of Catholicism, or any other denomination? - my addition)

There is only ONE baptism and that is unto Christ, Christ is NOT divided.

1 Corinthians 2:5
that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. (emphasis mine)

1 Corinthians 2:10-16
But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. (emphasis mine)

These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (emphasis mine)

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.