[The Holy Spirit gave us the Bible, not any church. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God.”]
The Holy Spirit gave us the Church AND the Bible. What do think Acts Chapter 2 is about?
On the Day of Pentecost, a book didn’t fall from the sky. The Holy Spirit came, and started a Church. And the Church existed for hundreds of years before there WAS an official New Testament. And - through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit - the Church WROTE the New Testament, USED the New Testament, received it as inspired, and bound it into a single volume.
The Church is OLDER than the Bible.
How do you think those 27 separate books became CONSIDERED “The New Testament”?
Because the Church received them as inspired.
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
“All inspiration is given by God.”
Not popes.