I'm not sure that the Jesus represented by the gospel writers would have approved of the idolatry made of the writings of Paul, Peter or John by later Christians. I'm not sure that when Paul, for example says "in my opinion" and "I also think I have God's spirit" that even he or any of the others thought that what they were doing locally in various congregations represented the express will of Jehovah. I read and I see sincere men and women who may or may not have understood Jesus properly. I'm also not certain as to what Jesus himself may or may not have known. There are so many odd incidents which defy moral explanations and seem anomalous. The case of Ananias and Sapphira, for example seem to suggest that Jehovah smote them, and yet that doesn't at all strike me as representative of what Jesus would have done, or even if these were culpable, what it was that made them so deserving of this divine intervention. It also contradicts the words elsewhere in the Bible when it is said of Jehovah in Lamentations 3:33 - "For not out of his own heart has he afflicted or does he grieve the sons of men." If this statement were true and the incident in Acts w/regard to Ananias and Sapphira were true, it seems that we have a paradox, because it would necessarily have been out of Jehovah's heart to afflict these deceptive two in this manner. I think the collective body of Christians need to reexamine scriptures in light of a reasonabl4e characterization of Jehovah, his son Jesus and others to determine just what is meant when it is said that the Bible is "God's Word". Jesus didn't seem to be at all interested while he was here on earth in the controversies which were ongoing as to what constituted scripture inspired by Jehovah, and that which was not. The Saduccees rejected all except the 5 books of Moses and the Pharisees accepted all manner of writings. Jesus didn't even bother touching any clarification of these things.
If there is any way to get a reasonable and simple representation of the Bible and what it is which is important to "be saved", I'm suspicious that Jehovah and Jesus are just leaving it up to each individual to knock or stop knocking to whatever degree he or she wishes and that "answers" which come to each one in confirmation are so buttery soft on the edges that no one can really know the answer to any of these things until later and if this is the case (which I suspect it is) we've just been given something with which to occupy ourselves until we die or the messiah arrives as the grand deus ex-machina to fix the whole mess.
I'm rather unsatisfied by ever explanation I've been given by anyone.
