So does how some people interpret God in the OT. So I stand by my statement of the New Covenant
Whatever authority the Catholic Church claims derives from that Truth.
God is truth,therefore the authority comes from God Himself to the Church to teach the truth-that included interpreting the Bible correctly
The rest of your post is based upon your own ideas of what Scriptures says,dear sister.
You really ought to read more of the Church fathers
As always, I appreciate the good nature of your post,dear sister.
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. - I John 2:27
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. – 1 Cor 10:1-4
Waaay back in the 50’s, when I was in elementary school, several of us kids would meet after school in the local bakery shop while they were cleaning up. The owners would give us drinks and left-over goodies. We’d bring our Bibles, read and just talk about Jesus.
My older sister – now in heaven – was always the ring leader.
It so happened that an old retired Baptist preacher heard about the bakery shop kids and came by to meet us. He was moved by what he saw and he used his life’s savings to build a tiny little church up the street.
Naturally all the kids got the rest of their families to join them in meeting in the new church – and before you knew it we were all baptized Southern Baptist. The church grew and split and had missionary churches of it own.
If it had been someone from another Christian “label” who found the bakery shop kids, built the church and baptized us, I’d probably be wearing a different label today. LOLOL!
As it is my "letter" has always been in a Baptist church, though that point is meaningless to me because at the root, I will always be that bakery shop kid – a Christian, plain and simple.
I attend Mass more often than any Protestant service in the area because our elderly Catholic cousin is in a wheelchair and needs help. Truly, there are many doctrines in the Catholic belief which grate against my spirit, e.g. closed communion, but if God led me to become Catholic, I would. But since I am a bakery shop kid at the root, the priest (a very nice man) can be grateful I am not. LOLOL!
May God ever bless you, dear brother in Christ!
To God be the glory, not man, never man.