Same here. I couldn't reconcile (wrap my mind around really) the differences between the plain, un-reinterpreted reading of Scripture with what the Catholic church actually, in practice, taught. Not their alleged *official* doctrine either. What was taught at the local parish level.
However, once my eyes were opened, I saw the disparity between Scripture and *official* doctrine as well.
Reading the scriptures was the motivation for leaving Rome.. The more i read the more I realized the less Rome was anything like the church of the NT ...Same here. I couldn't reconcile (wrap my mind around really) the differences between the plain, un-reinterpreted reading of Scripture with what the Catholic church actually, in practice, taught. Not their alleged *official* doctrine either. What was taught at the local parish level.
However, once my eyes were opened, I saw the disparity between Scripture and *official* doctrine as well.
SAME HERE!
Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it.