It's very egotistical of you to think that being "right" would mean converting to Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy. So...who has the "ego" problem?
As soon as you can PROVE from God's Word your beliefs, then we have a starting point. Until then, your spitting in the wind with your doctrines and traditions being on "equal par" with God's infallible Word.
There is nothing in Catholicism that is in harmony with the Bible.
Matthew 28 records Jesus giving HIS authority to the Church to teach and baptize.
there is not one example of anyone in the NT reading the Scriptures and deciding on their own what they meant.
if the Church has the authority of Jesus to teach, we MUST LEARN.
we are not instructed to read the Scriptures and decide what WE think they say.
i know that hurts the EGO of man.
the problem non-Catholics have is they don’t understand the Church is the Body of Christ. oh, they give lip service to this doctrine, but they really don’t understand the implications of the doctrine.
What would be the consequence were you to think twice about the fundamental interpretation you use to interpret scripture?
Your whole worldview is built on applying Occam’s Razor to scripture, and if you were to reject it as the norm for interpreting scripture, you’d have to reach the conclusion that either Eastern Orthodoxy or Roman Catholicism is the true Church.
The fact is we have cited scripture until we have been blue in the face.
I don’t place you and your interpretations as being on equal par with scripture.