that is only a predicament if you presume all Christians are infallible.
experience, as well as scripture shows that we are capable of frustrating the Spirit ((Isaiah 63:10, Acts 7:51, Galatians 2:21, Ephesians 4:30, 1 Thessalonians 5:19, etc))
so the Word is not contradicted, that we who belong to Him have in us the Spirit that teaches us all things ((1 John 2:27)) - and it is in fact upheld, because even though John writes this in his little letter, doesn't he also fill that letter with instruction? to those very ones about whom he says, you do not need to be instructed?
it makes much less sense that one man, appointed by men, has God's anointing, and that this man appointed by men speaks as God to all men.
what does scripture say?
No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother,
saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,
says the LORD.
For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.
(Jeremiah 31:34)
and
He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
(Ephesians 4:11-12)
if only the papacy should teach, only the papacy knows the Truth, then what are we doing here in a forum discussing doctrine?
and you,
@Marymog, if you believe your own words, what are you doing trying to teach
@Ferris Bueller? aren't you contradicting your own doctrine by thinking to instruct anyone?
but Ferris is correct - is God's purpose that we all remain children under a Roman schoolmaster? or that we become wise, and that He Himself dwell in and work through all of us, His body, over which He and He alone is the head?