“Well only because I have demonstrated in the past (as far as I am concerned) the validity of the God we serve and the divinity of Christ and the truthfulness we can put in His words.”

>>The operative words are ‘as far as I am concerned’. Consider the thought experiment again—if as far as the person who believed it was god’s will he commit murder the roman catholic church possessed no authority to counter his understanding of god’s will, you agree he could offer possible justification for failing to do so, right?

“Your belief in the Jewish God or any god has never been manifested in any of your words to me.”

>>I stated a belief in god explicitly in multiple posts—have you missed them all? Or are you saying that unless my understanding of god is exactly identical to your understanding of god I cannot claim to believe?

“Well to you only it is subjective. And that is a shame. You are free to revere the Flying Spaghetti Monster I suppose.”

>>You have some objective evidence demonstrating the Roman Catholic church’s statements re: morality possess greater authority than competing religious organizations—I mean, something other subjective personal faith in the authority of a preferred scriptural text? By all means, lets see it.

“I am morally required to live by the teachings of my Church.”

>>Even when the teachings of your church contradict what you understand to be god’s express will?

“My Church has demonstrated to me empirically, reasonably, historically and otherwise the validity of Jesus Christ and the authority given to her.”

>>From Meriam Webster: empirically: capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment. Exactly what form did that empirical demonstration take?

“For me to disobey the Church is to disobey God no matter what my conscience tells me otherwise.”

>>So if god communicates his will to you but the church tells you not to comply, you have a choice of disobeying god by disobeying god or disobeying god by disobeying the church, and you’d elect to disobey god by disobeying god, rather than by disobeying the church?

Makes one wonder which entity to actually worship, god or the Roman Catholic church.