Your ego is your God.
My God, the God of the Bible, is more than capable of saving me and keeping me without the *help* from any bunch of men who want to control me.
Why is it that it seems that Catholics are incapable of believing that God can deal with us on an individual level to convict us, save us, cleanse us, seal us, teach us, lead us by His Holy Spirit which He promised to us to do those very things?
What’s the issue about having to submit to the authority of any men or group of men who claim to be speaking for God?
It’s as foolhardy to follow one man with his own interpretation of Scripture as a whole bunch of men with their own interpretation of Scripture.
Might doesn’t make right. And longevity doesn’t make right.