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I thought all you needed was Scripture and had no need of any other input, guidance or advice. At least Catholics have a teaching authority to consult.

I can't think of anytime that I have said such a thing. Do you have an example? I DID go to a Bible college and worked my way through cramming four years into five and a half. And there were plenty of guiders, councilors, advisers, teachers and pastors. I learned quite a bit about quite a lot. So I cannot imagine why you could say I had no need of a teaching "authority". I was also taught to study the Bible and learn discernment so that what I was taught could be confirmed by the authority of God's word. Perhaps you have someone else in mind?

"Perhaps you have someone else in mind?"

I had you and all other Protestants in mind when I made the comment. We hear daily criticism of the Magisterium and the Catholics who give credence to it from the anti-Catholics on this forum but know that they each have some homemade or dime store magisterium of their own.

It really comes down not to authority but obedience and the different interpretations of that term. Protestants maintain a self centered view of the world and see obedience as a degrading concept, like a dog responding to its masters commands and "protest" against Church authority. Catholics, on the other hand, are called to obey Church authority and happily do so because we know definition of obey is not blind subservience. Our Catechism defines it as (CCC-144) "To obey (from the Latin ob-audire, to "hear or listen to") in faith is to submit freely to the word that has been heard, because its truth is guaranteed by God, who is Truth.So every time any Protestant slams the Magisterium and insists that everything spiritual must be extracted explicitly from Scripture, while relying on cheap imitations of a magisterium in the form of sermons from the the Rev. Billy-Bob Rolex, Bible College courses, banned websites and comic books, Reformist catechisms and treatises, we see the lie.

By your own admission "I DID go to a Bible college and worked my way through cramming four years into five and a half. And there were plenty of guiders, councilors, advisers, teachers"

Let us analyze wheat admissions have been entered. Most are proud to have crammed five and a half years of learning into four but you are to first to take pride in cramming four years of study into five and a half years. Is this some attempt to reach a level of humility demanded by Jesus in Mt 23:12?

What Bible college did you attend and what theological persuasion did they impart?

Remember 9/15 is an important date for some and might well portend the rapture. Maybe you and Harold Camping and the brain dead MTV rappers can in unity proclaim the rapture while traveling together singing the blues.