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So, we can see, from the beginning the way the Church has worked ever since. St. Paul was concerned enough to seek out first the fellowship of the others and then to confer about what he was preaching to make sure that He was right.

The Holy Spirit has determined what is Scripture through the men who guarded it from the beginning and passed on that truth to others. It was not me, or you or anyone else who did this, but the work of the Holy Spirit through the Church.

Now wait a minute. What Paul wrote was Scripture which is also what he taught. Peter himself acknowledges it as such.

So you're telling us that Paul, who was preaching what Jesus revealed to him by divine revelation, had to go to the other apostles to make sure that what he was teaching was right?

Are you serious????

Galatians 1:11-17 11 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel. 12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. 14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, 16 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

The Holy Spirit has determined what is Scripture through the men who guarded it from the beginning and passed on that truth to others

Interesting that when the Roman Catholics were doing all they could to keep the scriptures out of the hands of the common man, for to do otherwise would reveal the corruption within the Roman catholic church, there were Christians who sought refuge from the happenings....They did bring together the bible and it wasn't Roman Catholics.

Of course once the Roman Catholics realized they could not stop the scriptures from getting into the hands of the people, and that those of the Reformation had brought together a true translation for the common man, they had to counter that and have one of their own, which was proven to be as corrupt as the Roman Catholic church.

The history of the Roman Catholic church's oppostion to the ordinary man having the scriptures is amazingly interesting and insightful....no wonder they have to continually say they are the "guardians" of the scriptures....they did all but that!