You are forgetting that Christ stated emphatically that the Holy Spirit would lead the Church into deeper knowledge as time went on. New concepts would be revealed and the nuances and foreshadowings became clearer.
I do love being Catholic and think it’s the first, best, most Christ-centered religion one can have. But thanks for all the effort you put into your post.
I invite you to read the Catholic Bible, which is the original, and compare it to yours. See all the words that were changed or deleted from yours. You will be amazed.
Your chosen religion teaches that it is MARY who is bringing the NEW good news.
Oh?
That is NOT what the book says!
John 14:26 Douay-Rheims Bible
But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you.
That no more justifies the stated contrasts btwn the church of Rome and that of the NT church anymore than it does the Mormons, who essentially make the same claim, and renders your church to be an autocratic organization that is not subject to only wholly inspired substantive body of Truth.
I invite you to read the Catholic Bible, which is the original, and compare it to yours. See all the words that were changed or deleted from yours. You will be amazed.
Melian, I am a former (by the grace of God) faithful Mass-going RC CCD teacher and lector who actually read and studied the official (for America) Catholic Bible, so that is not going to help you. Traditional RCs even attack that Bible for good reason , while their favorite, the DRB, has very few differences from the KJV (which it influenced), apart from the long disputed deutros which only became binding ass part of the canon after the death of Luther , and only offers support for perhaps two RC distinctives, while contradicting other RC teaching as well as Scripture.
In addition, if you can find the original Bible you will be very famous, since everyone else only has copies of copies. And the Vulgate had so many versions and issues that it resulted in the first edition of the Latin Vulgate authorised by a pope, that of the scandalous works of Pope Sixtus V, the Sistine Vulgate which likely resulted the murder of its fanatical papal translator, besides only blaming copyists for its many errors. If you can find one you can be very rich (and hunted).