Are you not saying the same thing about the Catholic Church, that it alone is the authority, not any other church? It's the "broccoli". It really is a matter of which is God's authority. The CC or Scripture. Since much of which the CC espouses is contrary to Scripture it cannot be both. One is right and the other is wrong. Since the entire Bible extols God's Word as authoritive, never changing and unbreakable, I go with His Word.
And Christ gave his authority to the apostles, the first Bishops.
Matthew 28
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth
has been given to me.
19 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,
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with
you always, to the close of the age.”
No. And you're confusing the substitution of a part for the whole with two "competing" entities.
It really is a matter of which is God's authority. The CC or Scripture.
There is no conflict.
Since much of which the CC espouses is contrary to Scripture it cannot be both. One is right and the other is wrong.
Unsubstantiated assertion, followed by irrelevancy.
Since the entire Bible extols God's Word as authoritive, never changing and unbreakable, I go with His Word.
Simplistic. Protestantism (as least as displayed on FR, for the most part) is stupefyingly flat and two-dimensional, binary if you will. No depth, no texture, no richness.