You guys ALL must be catholic. Don’t you get it? There’s nothing I can say to you!
Not a Catholic.
If by “catholic” you mean in communion with the Pope of Rome, I am nothing of the sort. I’m afraid you are the one who doesn’t get it. You can’t pick up an English translation of the Bible and assume reading it at face value as if it were written by and for modern post-”Englightnment” men, and expect to get it right.
There are reasons to attend to what the Fathers of the Church thought the Scriptures meant: first, they, as much as you and I, were Christians to whom Christ’s promise that the Spirit would lead them into all truth applies, part of the Church against whom He promised the gates of hell should not prevail; second, some of them knew personally the Holy Apostles and Evangelists; and third, they lived in the same culture in which the New Testament was written, and (in the case of the Greek Fathers) were native speakers of the language in which it was written. This is not the case for you and me, so a little deference to their views on the meaning of Scripture is warranted.