RichWh1 wrote:
In their mind, if Scripture is the final authority  there goes their Pope and HIS authority!


 
In their mind scripture is of no authority of itself. But after all no man can serve two masters, and therefore in their fleshly minds the Pope is the final authority that begats Cathiolic flesh . 

Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.