“So you submit to the authority and the government of your particular Protestant community of faith that 1 Timothy is inspired and you do not submit to the authority and the government of much older Catholic Church that the Wisdom of Solomon, for example, is also inspired. That is what it boils down to: from scripture alone you cannot conclude so. “
I don’t regard the Catholic Church as the older denomination. I regard the reformed, Protestant church as the continuing church from the apostolic age.
You see, from our perspective, it’s the Roman Catholics who went wayward and left the farm, not the other way around.
The Catholic Church: formed by Christ expressly as His Church built on the person of Peter who shall convert his brethren (Matthew 16:16-19, Luke 22:31-32).
The Protestant communities of faith: not heard of till 15th c.
The Catholic Church: developed the canons of both Old Testament and the New Testament by early 5th c. when evidence of authorship and provenance was still relatively fresh; it included the Deuterocanonicals, despite objections (Canon of the Old Testament; Canon of the New Testament --historical reviews and must read for anyone interested in the formation of the canons)
The Protestant communuties of faith: developed false theology incompatible with most of the Holy Scripture, so they tossed whatever they could.
The Catholic Church: fought against major christological heresies of 1-4 cc. and formed a comprehensive body of theological work, and especially the Nicean Creed.
The Protestant communities: revitalized major heresies of old and added its own; pride themselves on ignorance of the patristic legacy and their lack of historical continuity.
You can believe what you want, but do not expect anything but scorn and ridicule from people of authentic Christian faith.