To claim that the church is now in charge because the early Church helped identify the legitimate writings of the Apostles is simply illogical. It’s the same as saying that soldiers who identify a message from their Commander are now in charge. Hardly, they’re to follow the instructions of the Commander as presented in the message. Since the Church is built on the foundations of the Apostles and Prophets, once the instructions written by those are identified, then the Church is SUBJECT TO those instructions.
Chaplain excellent analogy. The one I like to use is of the curator of the Louvre. The curator did not make the works of art, but being well versed in art knows art when he sees it and thus sets up the displays.
That, too, is a good analogy.
And for instruction on doing art, you wouldn’t go to the curator; you’d go to the artist.