Well, Scripture is either the inspired Word of God or not.
If it is, I trust in the promised God made in it to us. That is active, living faith.
If it’s not, we’re all um.... this is the RF..... in big trouble, even the Catholic church.
Catholics trust the magesterium and the CCC. I trust the Word of God.
Um, that’s *promises*
ROFL!!! And what? What would the authority of the magisterium be without the Scriptures? Nil. Zero. Nothing.
The CCC? (Not the Civilian Conservation Corps) Have you even read it? What is it without the Scriptures? Nil. Zero. Nothing.
I trust the Word of God.
So you say.
Hmmm ... Protestants on this forum and elsewhere seem to like telling other folks what the other folks believe, regardless of reality.
Looks to me like Protestants don't trust the Word of God. Looks to me like Protestants trust their own interpretation of what the Jews and Catholics told them is the Word of God. Looks to me like Protestants, each individually, arrogate to themselves the very same charism of infallibility that they deny to the Pope. Your own words betray you:
The more I read the Bible, the bigger discrepancy I saw between what it said and what the Catholic church taught.
Who stands in judgement? By your own words, you do. It seems that in your belief system, what you see in the Bible, how you interpret the Bible, cannot be wrong. That's odd, really. Catholics read the Bible ... certainly I do, and I'm not alone. What I see is a vast gaping discrepancy between what "it says" and what the various Protestant groups teach.
We can't both be right.
It's kind of funny, really. Or it would be if it weren't yet another cosmic tragedy.