There is plenty of scriptural evidence, and not just that, but history itself shows it as true.
being that, as ive said on other threads, the catholic church doesnt just rest on scripture, but on the ‘three legged stool’ of scripture, sacred tradition and the teaching church, that all compliment and affirm each other, including the succession of popes.
you limit yourself to your understanding of the word of God as opposed to the way God gave you, i.e. the teaching church, along with Sacred Tradition and the Word.
how do you think anyone learned anything back in the days, weeks, months or years after Christ ascended back to heaven?
there were no bibles, pretty much no one could read...there was only one method, a teaching church that encompassed the 3 legged stool i mentioned above.
and it still works today
I will leave the last word to you.
If it works as you say it does, why did Rome schism from the church in 1054? Shouldn’t the “three legged stool” be sufficient to keep the church universally united?
Except today there IS a complete Bible, translated into thousands of languages and most people CAN read. Add to that the indwelling Holy Spirit within each believer who will guide us into all truth. Why, then, is this three-legged stool still in place? Don't you realize you have placed tradition and the magisterium on the same level of authority as the Divinely-inspired Scriptures? Jesus came down pretty hard on the Jews for doing the same thing, you know.