Considering that the New Testament had yet to be written they indeed did go outside of what at the time was Scripture. In any case, what it clearly shows is that the apostles and presbyters of the church were invoking the authority of the Holy Spirit directly and not just appealing to Scripture.
Considering that the New Testament had yet to be written they indeed did go outside of what at the time was Scripture.
Guess you forgot about the OT.
In any case, what it clearly shows is that the apostles and presbyters of the church were invoking the authority of the Holy Spirit directly and not just appealing to Scripture.
Yes...they Holy Spirit was guiding them as the Helper as promised by Christ.
Notice no appeal to Mary or the departed saints.
Also notice that all present were in agreement with the decision of James.
2 Peter 3:16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
The apostles and disciples had the OT scripture and used that...the same scripture that Jesus used to teach the disciples that the OT was all about HIM
The letters written to the churches were circulated among all the churches carried from one to another .. so the NT was in circulation and being used as a scriptural foundation ... Peter called the writings of Paul scripture ...
The gospels were a retrospective view of the life and work of Christ