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LOL If you had read the chapter in question you would have seen verses 8-9. Now what had Paul preached to them? I think that fully clarifies my post. Paul, Peter, the disciples and apostles were not setting up another church of ritualistic traditions. NO they were not setting up a church where it's hierarchy would write volumes upon volumes of rules etc to place upon the believers. They gave instructions on what person could eat and it was simply restrain from strangled meat and don't drink blood. They didn't care if you ate beef on Friday that was your decisions to make as just one example. If a person themselves want to refrain from certain foods for a period of time it was the believers own personal choice to do so not some dictated order from whoever called himself leader. They kept it basic just as the Protestant churches have.

There was no other text but The Bible "GOD's Word" and their GOD inspired books and letters the churches were required to abide by that is my point. The NT Books were all available to believers early on. It was enough and they knew to keep it simple. They didn't say here you need to study this Dogma and The Bible and that was not what was intended. This brought corruption upon the churches and opened the door for abuses. The Bible is The Word of GOD not mans additional writs done past the early Apostles and Disciples writings. Thus the necessary correction to this came in the Reformation.

The Apostles didn't set up a earthly figurehead over all the churches {no not even Peter except as the leader of the twelve} NOR were they bound to be under such rule. Example Paul was not answerable to Peter, did not need his permissions, anointment, appointment, nor answer to him and Paul clearly states this. Peter was not Paul's Pope nor anyone elses. He was simply a man who lead the twelve in Jerusalem. Actually soon the Twelve were scattered because they were not fulfilling The Great Commission rather they were living in Jerusalem in a common community and The Gospel was not going out to the world. Thus came the persecution which did indeed scatter them and form many more churches and take The Word to many places long before the church in Rome gained power.

IOW The RCC wasn't then and never has been the church of churches nor the only sanctioned church. The Word Of GOD went north, east, south, and west, not just straight to Rome and kept by a few persons as some would want all to believe.

There was no other text but The Bible "GOD's Word" and their GOD inspired books and letters the churches were required to abide by that is my point.

As a point of information, the word "bible" does not appear in Sacred Scripture. That said: Who, in your opinion, wrote "the Bible"? (how many authors and what are their names) What became of the original source texts? Who and how was it decided which of the hundreds of texts were authentic and which were not?

The "Bible" did not suddenly appear. You need to do some research.

.....”The RCC wasn't then and never has been the church of churches nor the only sanctioned church. ‘The Word Of GOD’ went north, east, south, and west, not just straight to Rome and kept by a few persons as some would want all to believe.”....

True...but that is not what the catholic church teaches their followers...so it falls on deaf ears unfortunately....they really don't know the truth of the history of the church....they eliminate anything which doesn't align with their false historical teachings...and as much what they fully eliminate from those teachings.