****But I don’t accept another’s teachings because they said it. It just turns out that my belief matches theirs because they’re both based on the same Bible. If their teaching is from Scripture, I would have got there anyway. Hearing it may have speeded up the process but I don’t accept stuff just because of who said it.****
Sure. So, if one believes baptism is necessary, but someone else believes it’s not, who is right? And, if one believes that Sunday worship is necessary, and someone else believes it’s not, who is right? Or if one believes that Jesus was not God, the Second Person of the Trinity and someone else believes that He’s not, who is right? Or if someone says that Jesus didn’t bodily rise from the dead and neither shall we, and others believe that Jesus’ body did rise from the dead and so too shall we, who is right?
They can all appeal to Scripture in a fine game of name that verse, so, who is right? What is true? What does Scripture say?
Well, Scripture says that the church is the pillar and bulwark of truth, not you, not me, not Joe Schmoe pastor, or armchair theologians, but the Church. And if what Scripture says is true then there must be a Church, one that can be appealed to in the search for truth.
****Catholics need to get their eyes off man and following men, and a good start would be to realize that not everybody thinks like they’ve been conditioned to think. Just because Catholics have been trained to follow men, doesn’t mean that everyone else does.****
Catholics eyes are firmly on the Lord.
It certainly doesn't say the CATHOLIC CHURCH is the pillar and foundation of truth. The RCC just hijacked that verse and decided it applied to them.
Not accepting it.