“until the Holy Spirit reveals it to you”
Are you sure you’re not a modern Gnostic, one with secret knowledge only a few have? You need to be careful about the discernment of spirits. There have been times when I thought God was revealing something to me, and it turned out to be my own idea. I’m not talking about sin or the commandments but about decisions that I had to make. In my opinion, the spirit that would lead you to break union with the Catholic Church is not the Holy Spirit, but a prideful spirit. I know you think the same about me. One of the reasons I believe Jesus left us one central authority was the way human beings see things differently and continually divide themselves.
“Are you sure you’re not a modern Gnostic, one with secret knowledge only a few have? You need to be careful about the discernment of spirits. There have been times when I thought God was revealing something to me, and it turned out to be my own idea. I’m not talking about sin or the commandments but about decisions that I had to make. In my opinion, the spirit that would lead you to break union with the Catholic Church is not the Holy Spirit, but a prideful spirit.”
The scripture teaches that salvation itself depends on the Holy Spirit revealing that Jesus Christ is the Lord (1Co_12:3), and that no one chooses Christ, it is Christ who chooses them (John 15:16). Unless God literally draws you, you cannot come to saving knowledge on your own. So it follows then, unless God makes you a spiritual man, you cannot truly understand the scripture:
1Co 2:13-15 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (15) But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.