So if "even in Paul's day people were corrupting the scriptures," how can I know that I have a uncorrupted version of the Scriptures to "judge [my] teachers with"?
By the way, if the Scriptures are truly all-sufficient, why do I need "teachers" at all?
Come to think of it, if I have a $2 paperback KJV and that makes me qualified to judge "my teachers," why can't I just proclaim myself a "teacher"?
(Of course, that gets kinda snagged up with my preceding question, but consistency isn't fundamentalism's strong suit.)
Oh, and, BTW, "the Catholics" didn't take any verses out of "their bibles". However, "the Protestants" did omit six whole books from theirs.
Believers believe God Himself is able to use the Word of God in the mind of the believer to further sanctify that believer, independent of any other man other than the work of Christ. Faith is the work of God, not the Catholic Church.
The anthology of some 66 books called the Bible is not a sacred document, rather, the Word of God contained and communicated in the Bible as the written Word of God, is available for our nourishment and edification.
Six books of historically inaccurate pious fiction that found it's way into the Greek Septuagint. I have read them several times and believe all Protestants should give them a once over to see why they are irrelevant.