look, i think it is great when a Catholic finally opens a Bible, ok, because that is how a Catholic turns into a Christian. You are going to come to see that your priest has no answers for you, that are not death-centric hooey, and you are going to have to forget everything those guys have told you about Scripture and start over, but it isn't like you are starting from complete ignorance at that point--which might be better, for some--if/when you grasp the message that Paul was trying to convey, which is not that he was waiting to die to be with Jesus ok.
I might suggest that you avoid the Pentecostals, as they are...well, a popular alternative death-centered religion for wandering x Catholics, i guess, just like Catholicism seems to be for lapsed Pentecostals; but go as you are led.
See that you have not been directed to follow Christ's explicit instructions, and you got no answers for me where it counts because you cannot find anyone who has followed Christ's explicit instructions, because once you follow Christ's explicit instructions, you are going to be all done with death cults, and religion in general is going to be redefined for you. See that, just like your misconception that Anarchy has now become Chaos, somehow, when it is not, all of the other important definitions have been corrupted for you, so that you cannot practically have a conversation with anyone who does not hold corrupted definitions now. I could list 100 at least, religion has been turned into "what God wants for you," country has come to mean "nation," when that is demonstrably ridiculous, "eternal life" has come to mean "when you die, if you do exactly as i say," etc, on down the line, none of these definitions supported by a holistic view of the Bible, ok.
Now, you have accused me, most recently, of saying something "unScriptural," but i am noticing now that even though i have asked for what that is, you got no answer. And guess what, your priest doesn't either, ok. I don't mean to be rude here, but he is just a guy who has found what he sought, and you are going to have to make a decision to follow him, and studiously avoid the Bible, except when some approved guy spoon feeds It to you, and forget all about your first love, and continue believing that Jesus is bodily coming back to save you from your snakebit condition, or bodily coming most of the way back to take you to an Eternal Party in the Sky, or whatever the heck doctrine people get ahold of that makes it impossible for them to see that the Kingdom is here, right now, in the Body of Christ, Who has made His Spirit available to anyone who seeks Him, and comes to Understand I AM, and rectifies all of those verses that your priest has such yack answers for, if you even get an answer, which notice i am not getting one, and i am not going to get one ok, this is not my first rodeo, or the first time that i have gotten no answers to my Scriptural quotes, and when it gets too uncomfortable for you here, and i get banned for this, it will not be my last, either. I got plenty of other towns to go to, ok.
So please take this in the spirit intended, i know it isn't pleasant to contemplate that everything you think you know is a lie, and i can warn you with confidence that if you keep reading the Bible, you are going to be following in the illustrious footsteps of all the ex-Catholics in history, ok. Go read some Matthew Fox, or BAM find what the Spirit leads you to, or even go talk to your priest, bring him your questions, and be prepared to read his face, and you will easily see one of the only two things that could possibly be happening in his spirit, because he is a seeker, too; he has given up and accepted his lot, and must now invent or accept ever more nebulous explanations for the Scripture that he understands only too well, or he has some of the same questions you do, and cannot get acceptable answers to them, like you will not be able to, and if you are discerning you might read the answer in his face.
And i do not mean to demean him in any way, ok, he is just a guy on a path, just like you, and he is also being confronted daily with the truth, and coming to realize that all of the things he has been assured that he can know he does not really know at all, of course, and he knows that he does not know, now, but that is a big cliff to step off of, especially surrounded by the secure arms of the RCC, and he can read that the Christian walk is just not what has been advertised to him, at all, and it is obvious to him that he is not doing it, every time he opens a Bible, like it will be to you very shortly, if you keep opening It.