I guess according to you, to hell with theological and historical scholarship, it was given to every Tom, Dick, and Harry, and their Grandmother, to establish what is the true Word of God. Little wonder we have the politically corrupted black AME Churches, the vapid nonsense of the Billy Grahams, the David Koreshs’, the Jim Jones, the Mormons, the Moonies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Scientologists, the Joel Osteens, and of course your self appointed corner street Emmanuel Church pastor. What a mixed bag of “truths”
Satan works in a myriad of ways. One thing for sure. If they stray from the word of God found only in scripture they are on the wrong road. Those who rely on “private revelation’, extra Biblical writings, and snippets of scripture will never know the true Christ of scripture. Catholicism fits right in there with Mormons, Muslims, JW, and even have the visions and revelations.