During my lifetime the Church has shown a general movement toward more biblically-based teaching and less second-hand doctrine. Although some denominations still focus strongly on doctrine, I believe the movement away from it has spawned from Mark 7. The Pharisees accuse Jesus and the disciples of not living according to the traditions of the elders because they didn't wash their hands before they ate. Jesus calls them out for thinking that an unbiblical tradition should be followed by all men and points them to Isaiah where the prophet says:
"These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship in vain; their teachings are merely human rules."
Their have been a lot of Godly men that have been known to lead people astray. We cannot just trust a man of God because he's been put in a position of authority. Every Christian should read and understand the Bible for themselves in order to know what to believe when told by others. Nothing the Pope says can overrule what God has told us through His Word. Nothing our pastor says. Nothing Joseph Smith said. Nothing any man says has more power to it than what we read in the historical text that is sitting in every Christ-believing church today. The truths of the Bible are never ending, so anyone that speaks in disagreement to it will not lead people to a place that glorifies God.
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