The Catholic Church claims something remarkable: apostolic succession, a living magisterium, and unbroken tradition stretching back to the apostles.
The deeper down the rabbit hole I go, the more I fall in love with Christ and His Church. I'm not saying the Catholic Church is free of its own faults, there are plenty of those. But I've found a fullness of faith within it.
Protestantism only trades the tradition and magisterium of the Church for their own. These reformed churches haven't eliminated the need for authority; they relocate it from the institutional Church to the individual conscience (or someone else's opinion) interpreting Scripture. That's why there are countless different flavors of them.
Without a living teaching authority and apostolic tradition to anchor interpretation, each Protestant interpreter becomes, in effect, their own magisterium or follows a new one that fits. I like the hard fork analogy, even going so far as to tweak the canon of what they claim is scripture.
The only early Christians who rejected Church authority for private Scripture interpretation were deemed heretics.
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