Well, I do not follow any institution because Jesus never came to establish an institution.
Salvation is through Jesus alone and not any organization or institution.
Well, then, let's toss out our Bible and lean rather heavily on:
You guys have Jesus. We worship Jesus. Worlds of difference.
Yes there is worlds of difference. I’m sorry to hear that you admit you don’t have Jesus. We do and we worship Him as well.
Romans 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Well, this is encouraging. It's a start that you are able to recognize the difference. Now, you guys need to learn what it means to have Christ.
Philippians 2:9-11 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
However, not every knee that bows belongs to a believer. Some will only bend the knee and confess that Jesus is Lord under duress. It will be too late then, even when they reach the point where they acknowledge what they've refused to admit for so long.
As far as having the Son.....
1 John 5:11-13 11And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Well, then, let's toss out our Bible and lean rather heavily on:
That's the problem with the Catholic church. They've already done that and it's gotten them nowhere but into a lot of unsupportable doctrines and teachings. You toss Scripture at your own peril.
John 5:37-40 37And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, 38and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. 39 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, 40yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.