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Please continue to point out any time Catholic theologians do not base their theology or answers on Scripture.

In my experience this is MOST of the time. I'm not trying to be coy or sarcastic here, what every Catholic should ask themselves is this:

Why am I a Catholic?
What has the church taught me about God's word?
Does it jive with what the Holy Spirit teaches me?

What has the church taught me about God's word? Does it jive with what the Holy Spirit teaches me?

Did Christ promise the Holy Spirit to each and every Christian to determine correct doctrine, or to the Apostles? I believe the Scriptures clearly point out that we are to obey those in authority over us, not subject their teachings to our own ideas of truth.

Regards

In my experience this is MOST of the time.

I don't know if I should trust your experience at all because this was clearly not such a case. Who knows how many other times you have falsely read into what Catholic Theologians, Bishops, Popes or Priests have written or said.

Then right after you were corrected, you continue to dig at your fellow Christians (Catholics) with your "Catholic warning questions:"

"Why am I a Catholic?
What has the church taught me about God's word?
Does it jive with what the Holy Spirit teaches me?"

These are questions you would ask a Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon or someone who has no idea what the Bible is for or who has a Bible with books written over the last century or two. I think you are trying to save the wrong people! Catholics and especially Catholic Theologians, Bishops, Popes and Priests read, study and teach the bible. I have read the bible cover to cover and studied God's WORD and continue to pray with the Bible. I have done this based on the teachings of the Catholic church. My wife and I read the Bible in our house with our 5 kids on a regular basis. By the way I have been a parishioner of 5 different Catholic churches in 3 different states and all are well connected to and based on the Bible.

My Church has taught me a ton about the bible and from the bible. If it didn't, I would wonder and look to Protestant churches to give me the Bible. Lay Catholics have moved more toward the bible over the centuries since the unfortunate Protestant breaks. And this is especially the case in the past 40 years (Vatican II). Lay Catholics have really moved to study and appreciate the Bible. But, Catholic Theologians, Bishops, Priests and Popes have always studied and prayed with the Bible and based their teachings on the Bible. As I am sure you are well aware, Catholic teachings have also been based on Tradition and the Fathers of the Church as well.

Thanks for your concern but you may want to concentrate on saving others instead of Catholics. We love the Bible and see the world through God's WORD very much like you.

You may want to consider the Catholic Church yourself because along with the Bible, it has the Mass. And in the Mass we receive the living WORD of God in the Eucharist. Every Mass is made up of the Liturgy of the WORD and the liturgy of the Eucharist. Daily as a community we read from the Old Testament and the New Testament. Also daily, we receive Christ into our bodies. The Catholic Church gets you close to Jesus and keeps you united like one bread both with the Bible and the Eucharist. This is all through the grace of God. And we praise God and thank him for giving this all to us out of his complete mercy and love. Without Christ, His WORD and His Eucharist we Catholics have nothing. Why has he saved us? We are not worthy, so we cling to our Catholic faith, the Bible and the Eucharist like you cling to your faith.

May the Triune God keep you and love you all the days of your life!