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It is called Holy Scripture - God breathed and not the tradition of man or your church. God did not need your church or any man to convey His Word to His people.

You do realize that the first books of the New Testament were most likely not written until 20 years after the Ascension and the foundation of the Church, right? The last books were not written until as late as 40 years after that. I wonder what the CHurch was doing in the meantime.

Sometimes I wonder if some Protestants are so absent-minded as to think that on the pages of the Bible is when things happen. As if Peter was given the Keys in Matthew 16 vs. being given the Keys sometime in the year 31 or 32. The people and events in the Bible are real history, folks. And it was already history when it was transcribed into the New Testament.

Holy Scripture is Holy Scripture - God-Breathed - imparted through fallible men to fallible men. "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Tim. 3:16). Scripture is our authority: "Not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the Word of God" (1 Thess. 2: 13).

You do not believe that Scripture was not in extant until it was written down - it is what Jesus taught His disciples and what the apostles, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit led them to write down. Scripture didn't become Scripture when the RC Church determined it was Scripture. It was Scripture when God breathed it through Paul's teaching, through Luke's writings etc.