“I could even attend a Catholic church, if they started teaching what the scripture teaches... “
They teach a heck of a lot that is spot on.
So I’d rephrase your post as, “I could even attend a Catholic church, if they quit adding what the scripture doesn’t teach...
I’m thankful for all I learned in the Catholic Church in my youth. I feel blessed to have been “born on third base”.
When i became truly born again at age 25, due to Holy Spirit real conviction and repentance, thank God, then even nature seemed new to me, and i appreciated things that were Scriptural in Rome. And thus evangelicals manifest a shared and more fervent contention against those who deny basic truths both concur with, due to their Scriptural warrant. But likewise they contend against traditions which are a product of sola ecclesia, which Rome shares with most cults.