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My primary source of authority is God's Word, the Holy Scriptures. I do not base my beliefs on anything else. My beliefs must line up with God's Word, God's Word is not to be conformed to our beliefs. If I have been taught something that does not line up with what God has revealed in the Bible, then I must discard those beliefs as false. Ok, that being said. You must hold true to scripture right. When scripture shows someone teaching something that didn't go along with want Jesus taught, what did the apostles (Paul and Barnabas) do? They went to Peter and the others. What happened at this council? After much debate, Peter rose and spoke, after he finished speaking, all were silent. The issue was over-ruled by Peter. So, in keeping with your primary source of authority, God's word is telling you, when you see something that is not what Jesus taught; take it to the church. I did not leave the RCC because I didn't agree with its teachings. I left because it has teachings which contradicts the Scriptures. After writing you for the last few weeks, I have given you multiple scriptural references for your issues with the Catholic church. In my view you are ignoring these scriptural facts to follow your man-made traditions. The Protestant idea of the "Bible alone" (sola scriptura) is, ironically, nowhere in the Bible. The Bible speaks of an infallible Sacred Tradition and an infallible Church that has authority to interpret Scripture. The Bible even warns against sola scriptura. In the Old Testament God gave authority to his priests to interpret his laws and issue binding teaching based on those interpretations, even with regard to criminal and civil issues- both of which were dealt with by divine revelation (Lev. 20:1-27, 25:1-55). In the New Testament, he endowed the Church with infallibility in teaching.

In order to learn what the Truth is, we must have a standard for Truth in which to test all things. Truth is not found in man, but in God. If the RCC teachings come from God Himself, then its teachings will always agree with God's Word Just like I have shown you. I don't put my belief to the test, I study the Scriptures and believe what it says. No church is perfect because humans are not perfect. Only God is infallible in all things. I don't embrace all my church teaches, unless it lines up with what the Scriptures says. How can I know if my church's teachings are from God if I don't study the Scriptures?. Follow your own advice, read...>>> Acts 15: 1* But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved." 2 And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. 3 So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, reporting the conversion of the Gentiles, and they gave great joy to all the brethren. 4 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. 5 But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up, and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses." 6 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter. 7 And after there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the early days God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 And God who knows the heart bore witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us; 9 and he made no distinction between us and them, but cleansed their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore why do you make trial of God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 11 But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will." 12 And all the assembly kept silence; and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
The question is, are you afraid of the truth? If I were afraid of the truth , I wouldn't read the Bible.