You're using Scripture to make the case that the Catholic Church can't be Christ's Church since the hierarchy is sinful.
So I thought I'd take the opportunity to point out that the Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura is logically incoherent, and therefore, cannot logically prove anything.
These arguements show you don't even understand what is wrong. I am stupified. Flummoxed. Dumbfounded. Disgusted.
Sola scriptura or not, it cannot be argued that the man in the earliest church was to be thrown out. Why did the church change the principle of that? A bishop is condemed in revelation for allowing a Jezebel to teach. Are the keys all powerful that even they can be turned to allow practicing sexual perverts to remain in the church? That makes a mockery of the Christian religion imo.
There is more to the church than just the scriptures, granted, but when the church strays so far from what is plainly stated in the scriptures, something is terribly wrong.