That's what they want you to believe, that one day you found a bible, picked it up and started interpreting it for yourself. Yet, Romans 10:
17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
and we are among those at the ends of the earth to whom the gospel is preached, and hearing, we believed.
There is no other way for us to have received the word of Christ except it has come down to us out of the Great Commission.
Yet, scratch Catholic doctrine and they will assert only they (some sort of elect) born into a belief, who for the most part never became born again, possibly do not even know what that is, never heard the gospel preached and subsequently believed it, preferring instead the words of the catechism handed out to them at a young age to the truth of the bible.
And scratch some more, and you will probably find that they think that the Roman Catholic church only contains all the believers drawn out of all the nations of the earth, found in the Book of Revelation.
Your Apostle is inferior to their Apostle, you are only an unpedigreed mutt, they have papers don'tcha see--- some kind of imaginary relationship from Peter to the Pontifex Maximus of the present day, give or take a 400 year gap in there.
You can't prove that your ordained pastor is any good at all, he doesn't have a big long genealogy which he made up to impress you. All he has is the word of Christ. If he didn't you would not have been convicted of your sins and become a Christian. The only proof he has is you. Somehow I think it will hold up in God's court.
Furthermore, since infant baptism gives them all, including the Hitlers, the serial killers, all wicked rulers in high places found among them, the power of the Holy Spirit will take them all to heaven, because after all, they are in the church
You however, belong to a defective sect, a church of one, only able to rely on the word of God and the HS that you received at your conversion.
LOL
Now you're just making stuff up.
I AM A CHILD OF THE KING. I DON’T CARE WHAT THEY THINK.
And yet we know it's wrong to kneel down to statues of Mary and worship her.