Now there is a lie of the RCC that needs correcting.
Acts 15:8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness by granting them the holy Spirit just as he did us. 9 He made no distinction between us and them, for by faith he purified their hearts.<<
Ephesians 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,<<
It’s not just “the representatives He left here on Earth for us” that have that Holy Spirit. It’s all believers who have that Holy Spirit and are representatives of Him here on earth. And that’s just a small example of how the RCC has lied to it’s followers. I would encourage you to pray that the Holy Spirit will guide you rather than look to the RCC for that guidance.
Romans 8:9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
If Catholics don't believe that anyone but certain representatives have the Spirit, then precious few of them are saved.
ALL the saved have the Spirit of God in them and when you do you KNOW it.
I didn’t say the Holy Spirt just inspires the Apostles. But Christ prayed for the Apostles in a special way as the leaders of his Church and promised he would not leave them rudderless. He promised them the Holy Spirit would continue to guide His Church. Obviously, the KJV of the Bible would downplay that.
The Holy Spirit touches us all, of course, but guides the Church leaders in a unique way. Only Catholics trace their roots back to the original 11 Apostles. Other religions started some time later: directly opposing Christ’s wish for his Church to stay unified. Catholicism is the most Biblically accurate religion there is... which makes sense since it was the only one instituted by Christ Himself. We trace our leadership right back to Peter, Christ’s bedrock foundation.
We also don’t pick and choose between the easy Scripture and the difficult. We take all of it as Christ’s word. He said we must eat His flesh and drink His blood, and that’s just what we do in the Eucharist. It was too hard a teaching for the weak then, and it’s too hard a teaching for the weak now. Christ lets them go. He meant everything He said!
Protestantism is the LEAST unified religion on the planet. That alone indicates it is not Christ’s Church. Every 3 seconds, a new Billy Bob decides he’s got a better personal interpretation of Scripture and starts a church. I would never put my soul in the hands of any religion that was not unified, holy, and anciently Apostolic. It flies in the face of Christ’s own Holy Spirit-inspired Scripture.