So much for the promises God made to us then, eh? You get to be saved because you worked it all out on your lonesome. No Church, no clergy just you and your pride filled zeal. Sorry buckwheat, no sale. That is NOT what Our Lord taught, it is not what His appointed Apostles taught nor is it what the Apostolic successors taught, either in Holy Writ or in other teaching.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
2 Corinthians 5:4-5 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
Ephesians 1:13-14 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.