It's more like they pronounced themselves to be along lines of sola ecclesia, wherein percieving themselves to be in authority, they could freely make decisions unmoored from the guidance of the Holy Writ.
That was much the original point which I made towards you (though now re-worded) which you have been 'studiously avoiding'.
Sorry, but that point (and now several points) craters your overall contentions.
But what a wsay to argue for sola ecclesia.
Do you not realize I see through it, as for the implications?
But go ahead, say what ever. I'm done with this, and with you, for the time being.
Because it is a man made precept. Who is to say if it is properly applied or not. They feel that they are applying it properly. You need a final arbiter and that is the Catholic Church.