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I thought the Apostles sent out witnesses to found the early churches?

Do you have documentation of this ? Scriptural evidence points more to Paul and company, I believe.

And here it is again. Even with eyewitnesses to the life of Jesus, you desire that text. Though the Apostles or their immediate successors are alive and directing the Church, even though the Bible is not yet finished being written, you desire it over and above the Church that already exists.

This is the result of your sola scriptura lenses. The new Church, even though it writes and canonizes your Bible is not sufficient to teach you.

To what eyewitnesses to the life of JESUS do you suggest that I appeal, other than they which preserved their eyewitness in the scriptures.

I am grateful for the writers which wrote and for the canonization of the NT scriptures by a church which was apparently faithful to this calling by God.

Let's face it ... I trust the recorded words of God more than I do the teaching of men.

Dave, ... if you were to buy a house or a car, ... enter into a business partnership, etc., ... you would insist that the transaction be recorded to shield yourself (and your family) from any potential loss.

Yet you would insist that I risk my very soul on what is not recorded as scripture, ... simply trusting that your leaders have accurately passed down oracles of God through two centuries worth of time, ... which they, as yet, ... have not deemed to designate as scripture.

My point was only that I think your position today, no matter how justified, is anachronistic when applied to the first century. I would much rather learn at the feet of those who knew Jesus than I would from a book.

Even in the first generation, your suspicion of the humans in the Church comes out.

I'm not saying you are right or wrong, just noting how deeply your attachment to the written word over any Church is. You are, at least utterly consistent.