[wagglebee]

Yes, we are well aware that the YOPIOS crowd has build an entire theology around 2 Timothy 3:16. However, that overlooks a critical issue and that is that our Lord told the Apostles and their successors as Saint Paul explained to Saint Timothy to TEACH the Church. 2 Timothy 3:16 is an instruction to a BISHOP and this has already been explained in 2 Timothy 2:2.

There is NOTHING suggesting that we were supposed to figure it out on our own. In fact, Saint Peter warns that this is DANGEROUS:

15 And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation; as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:

16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. 17 You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness.
-- 2 Peter 3:15-17

[RnMomof7]

You assume that the “church” is what is today called the Roman Catholic church...you know what they say about assuming....