“GOD gave us Scripture under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit”
Let me edit that for those wanting the truth. GOD gave the Catholic Church scripture under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Not pentacostals, not baptists, not mormans, not methodists, not 7th day adventists, not calvinists, not lutherans, or any of the alphabet protestant communities that that have popped up since the German’s drunkard monk named Luther tried his best to destroy God’s Church. He gave CATHOLICS, the inspiration to compile the Holy Bible and determine what was divinely inspired and what was not. And that includes the OT, which protestants all but ignore.
The “Catholic Church” is all believers in Christ, universal, not just the ones who follow the bishop in Rome. I hope that you, indeed, are able to stand before the Father, and He can admit you to His kingdom because of what Christ did for you on the cross. THAT is what brings salvation, not adherence to any number of man-created doctrines...and that goes for Protestant man-made doctrines, too.
And it has worked SO well...
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.