The Holy Spirit to guide them? Only them? That's not what scripture teaches.
Acts 15:8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
True believers are also given the Holy Spirit to dwell within them. It is that Holy Spirit that teaches.
1 John 2:27 As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught you, remain in him.
Why allow that Catholic Church to come between you and the Holy Spirit?
CynicalBear I will not play the banter game with you, Your Free will can guide you as it seems to be, I will however leave with these thoughts:
Did/do you interpret the scriptures on your own? Did you Seek someone else? What Made you or they whom you sought so much more inspired than the thousandth of years of our Christian Ancestry? For well over a 1000 years individual inspired interpretations were (Rightfully) called Heresy, Why now is that different?
When reproving sinners:
Matthew 18:17-18(rsv)
“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
The Church had to have Authority for if not this is wasted words.
Matthew 28:17-20(rsv) Commissioning of the Disciples
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.”
Why did Jesus give Authority to begin with if it were to only be disregarded?
John 14:25-26 The Promise of the Holy Spirit
“These things I have spoken to you, while I am still with you.
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
The Lord Said it would happen and we Christians acknowledge it happen when we recognized Pentecost.
God Bless and may he Guide you Back into his Arms.