That makes zero sense.
You say you trust that “men were guided by God” (in putting the right books of the NT together) but then go on to say that you “don’t trust the men that did so” with the caveat that their work was led by God. So you trust that God led them to give Christians the correct books for our NT but you don’t trust that God would guide them to the proper interpretation of the NT books after that???? Huh....
I think what you are saying is you trust YOU to properly interpret Scripture and no one else....
You say you trust that “men were guided by God” (in putting the right books of the NT together) but then go on to say that you “don’t trust the men that did so
True. I don't put my trust in men at all. I will give any and all a fair hearing and trust their honesty and sincerity, but I will only trust what they say by Scriptural confirmation that it is true of God.
Scripture judges as foolish to put our trust in men, and as I said also before, the Lord never told us to put our trust in His own prophets and apostles, but rather to trust only in His Word given to them for us to read and know.
I quoted you the Scriptures and I will not bother to cast the pearls before you anymore, because Scripture is only a plaything to you.
Like seed on the wayside, Scripture given to you doesn't even get a passing glance from you.
The only things you trust in and hear and obey are the things told to you by 'your leaders'.
You are completely blinded to reading Scripture and actually using it as the basis for your way and walk in life by faith.
That makes zero sense.
Scripture makes zero sense to you, because Scripture is meaningless to you, when it comes to the true things and deeds of life in Christ.
I think what you are saying is you trust YOU to properly interpret Scripture and no one else....
Exactly! Now you got. See how easy that is?
And since I am going to answer for myself anyway, then I might as well know I am completely responsible for my own answer to God, and won't be trying to point fingers at others like Adam did, and like you will.
Since you plainly do not trust yourself to know what God is saying to you in His Word, and so you put your blinded trust in men, contrary to the Scripture that judges you as foolish. But then you don't care what Scripture says.
If Paul himself were to come preaching to me in our assembly, you know what I would do? If I didn't readily believe what he was saying by reason of known Scripture, then I would go to Scripture to check to see if it was so. Just as the Bereans did, to which Paul did not object, and just as he exhorts and warns us to do as well:
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Paul said that if he came back preaching other than what he preached at the first, then he was to be anathema to others. And how do we know what he preached at the first? By Scripture written as such.
Scripture is nothing but a passing fad for you. If your traditional fathers and their inheriting rulers were to tell you something from the wind or a spirit or as an angel of light, you would swallow it up whole, because you have absolutely no faith to read and believe and do the Word of God for yourself.
Not only have you never gone beyond cradle-hood. You drink a spoiled and poisoned milk from a man-made bottle.
Mystery Babylon:
Them that saw the true Light and confessed His name Jesus by word of Scripture, then changed their faith in Scripture to that of men's traditions, and go on to seek and search out and find another light and confess by another religion, which is no light nor religion, but is darkness indeed and idolatry in practise.