Hopefully this won't be too abstract. ;-0
The Bereans are an example. They were revered because they did not just accept what an individual told them or wrote to them. They measured everything against what was in Scripture.
The Bereans are an example
An example? You have more? I would say the example, and a poor one at that. First here we are dealing with +Paul and that is a story in itself. Second, it is wholy unclear what "scriptutres" were the Bereans using in order to believe!?!
They were in a synagogue (and I thought +Paul was establishing churches!), were they were supposedly taught what Christ taught and that was not in the Scriptures — yet.
For, surely, the only Scripture they could read in Greek was the Septuagint Old Testament! They didn't have Gospels to "double check" if what +Paul was saying (or, as some say, Christ was saying through +Paul) was indeed so!
If they converted to Christianity based on the Old Testament they were either divinely inspired or totally gullable.