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I think you might be underestimating God. It’s His Word and He can and does certainly reveal it to whom He chooses...

In fact we as members of His Body, thru His Spirit, are told to confirm what is taught in the churches by searching the scriptures ourselves...and His Spirit will teach us.

..... you make the church body sound like it has to be subject to a ‘Government’ over it’s people...Church leadership does not ‘Govern’ the body...it’s members do...with Jesus Christ as the Head.

Furthermore...God Gave us the Scriptures...the church did not “create” the scriptures. They come from Him.

I'm puzzled by your post so perhaps I wasn't clear. God gave us the scriptures-not the church. These scriptures were handed down to us. All the early fathers did was simply reaffirmed the inspired works. This isn't anything different than what went on for centuries and is documented in scripture (see King Josiah).

What the Catholic Church did was after 1,000 years of accepted inspired works by both the Hebrew and Gentile fathers, they introduced OTHER text that was never accepted as inspired works of God. Not even by their own Church. So Catholics have some explaining to do as to what constitutes "inspired" writings and how the inspire writings of God differs from others.

As far as underestimating God and to what He wants to reveal to who...to be perfectly honest I'm about the very last person on this site you should question about that.