1. Please do not refer to the Catholic Church as a "sect." It is the Church.

It could be one of a bodies of men (sects)following their own tenets that make up the bride of Christ, but it is not the mother of all opinions, just one of the many voices that express their personnel opinion.You guys just have a differnt kind of aim like in venerating the flesh of men for the work the Spirit of Christ does to them.

139 hairesis {hah'-ee-res-is}

from 138; TDNT - 1:180,27; n f

AV - sect 5, heresy 4; 9

1) act of taking, capture: e.g. storming a city 2) choosing, choice 3) that which is chosen 4) a body of men following their own tenets (sect or party) 4a) of the Sadducees 4b) of the Pharisees 4c) of the Christians 5) dissensions arising from diversity of opinions and aims



2. The Church does not discourage us from reading and being taught by the Scripture.
Ok, and what exactly do you have to rightly divide as referenced, as the word of truth, is the commentary of your sect, as higher authority than the word of God as a law or just another theory after the philosophies of men??

Through prayer, Sacred Tradition, The teaching authority of the Church, through the writings of the ECFs, through the writings and examples of her saints throughout the centuries.

Scripture, the word of God, is rightly divided by the Sacred oral Traditions after the commandments of men ?,The authoritive opinion of the Church, through the writings of the ECFs in which Christ referred to as think not , through the writings and examples of her saints throughout the centuries?

That sounds like the same formula the Pharisees with Sadducee's used to persecute Christians during the first century reformations, but then again history does repeat itself .