If that is your criteria then you can dismiss Catholicism, which, as evidenced daily here, is certainly not one in word or spirit.
And even Catholics have a great deal of liberty to interpret the Bible within the broad of Catholic teaching, while evangelicals typically also have limits in their churches as regards interpreting the Bible.
It is actually those who esteem Scripture the most as literally being the word of God thathat testify to the most unity in basic beliefs and values .
See Church history from 1 A.D. until now. There WAS no other Church until the defrocked, disgraced Father Martin Luther led the way for MORE "protesters."
Which is so ignorant a statement that you should not be in debate.
Besides the basic absence of the Catholic church in the record of the NT church,Rome split from the Orthodox long before Luther was compelled to do so, and remains with substantially difference s.
Oh well, it's time for me to fold up my tent. G'night.
Yes, you should fold up your tent and find solid evangelical fellowship.
Years ago, after I first believed at the witness of a Methodist whom the Lord appointed for that purpose, I looked for a suitable church. I still believed after that, that I had to find exactly the right church, the right congregation. I looked into Roman Catholic and others, perhaps oddly using a book that my aunt had recently given me, Leo Rosten’s “Religions of America.” What spoke to my heart was the Lutheran pastor’s presentation in that book, which spoke of responding to God as a loving Father rather than as a stern monarch. And I started with a Lutheran church, and they were loving people. But a quest for certainty eventually brought me to the door of a bible church.
The Catholic “world” inasmuch as I have viewed it on FR, is full of debate which, frankly, can get very catty at times. Oh look what this person said to that person! Not very often (I wouldn’t say never) do I see “look how the Lord is moving here, and He personally is separating chaff from wheat.” With the prime actor being the Lord. No, it’s all about the people most of the time, which makes it look like the no-win game that it has more and more become. What is happening to the Catholic world looks frankly like what is happening to the political Democrat world. If they WERE honest to God at one time, they’re now busy tossing it all to the winds. Luther and the classic Protestant reformers only noticed it early. No perfection themselves, but they swore to put their trust on the Lord that they were convinced would perfect them, based on His promises.