WHICH Scriptures? The only written Scripture at the time of Acts was the Old Testament. They were studying what the Church practices today... the New Testament was concealed in the Old and the Old Testament has been revealed by the New. They searched the Old Testament to find the truth of the testimony brought by the Apostles. The Apostles brought their own experience and their teaching authority in building Christ's Church, not Bibles to be memorized.
WHICH Scriptures? The only written Scripture at the time of Acts was the Old Testament. They were studying what the Church practices today... the New Testament was concealed in the Old and the Old Testament has been revealed by the New. They searched the Old Testament to find the truth of the testimony brought by the Apostles. The Apostles brought their own experience and their teaching authority in building Christ's Church, not Bibles to be memorized.
On this I have no problem. It's when we go beyond what the Apostles taught and left to us in their writings we start to go off the track.
The point I was making is that we are capable of searching the Scriptures to find their meanings as did the Bereans as noted in Acts. We should all be doing this. The Holy Spirit will be our Helper in this.
And Jesus told the religious leaders that they thought that they would find eternal life in them, the scriptures, but he told them that if they were to search the scriptures that they testify of him, and that they would find eternal life in him.