Who are we supposed to listen to then?

NOTE: I do not subscribe to any religion. I once believed in Masoretic Text translations until I dug deeper and came to a different conclusion during my search through Christian denominational teachings, their leaders, and the roots of how they started, while reading the Bible itself verse by verse a few times (many translations) or more to match up their beliefs to the spiritual book they claim to follow and believe in themselves. If you ask me what I believe, I would say what the scholarly census has agreed upon, even if the decision board doesn't agree with them because they're worried about the faith of humanity for what they were taught to believe despite it contradicting evidence. Anything I've studied, watched, read is added here to help you see how I got to this point to help others who are curious too. 

How to read: I put these in order as much as I could, from the beginning to the end of the Bible. However, some wrap up a context by cross-referencing one another to bring in the point. My notes are raw and help explain my reasoning or how I've come to an understanding for myself based on the whole Bible in its whole context, not just cherry-picked. Hence why I have so many, not just 4 common debate verses. I do not write out the verse because I don't want the translation I'm using to be an issue or thought to be biased. I think the point of each verse will come across in either of them.

2Ti_3:14-16

He is speaking of the scripture, which means to the Hebrews, the Torah. NT was not around this time as a whole bible which people tend to not realize or forget.

Not all the bible were inspired, the fruits of the "early church fathers" that took bribes in order to stay alive set up what they say is "inspired", to use the rules against the people (most likely). Though it is nice to see the letters and they can guide us to see if we're doing well when we are sure to understand them correctly, and to hear what Jesus has said. The first Christians, the old prophets since they had the spirit of Christ in them (1Pe 1:11) had holy spirit. This scripture alone, means that the writings Tim grew up with...that were AROUND were God breathed for sure. No way around it.

Vrs 16 is mistranslated, it should be "all God-breathed scripture [is] also beneficial", or you can mean any literature is God breathed and that's just not true if you're honest with yourself.

We also don't really know how many scrolls Paul had for himself or studied, though we do know he quoted from the Septuagint where most translations but maybe literally 1, are the Jews rewritten version called the Masoretic Text, and back than there was no Canon, they read things like Tobit and Enoch as well and deemed them God breathed as well.

So... the Tanak/torah will point us to Yeshua, as Yeshua has said himself.

Joh_5:39

Joh_5:46

Luk_24:44

Luk_24:27

Act_28:23

1Co_15:3-4

Mat_7:12

Mat_22:40

Luk_24:32

Jesus made it happen where we open our eyes to the OT scriptures by sending us the spirit of truth that does this for us. We re-read and see it was Jesus all along.

Joh_14:26

Neh_9:20

Mat_10:19-20

Mar_13:11

Luk_12:12

1Jn_2:27

This is why Jews were waking up when being proven by the scriptures along with the testimony of the people who SAW and WITNESSED The Messiah.

We will have his morals in our hearts and minds, we will no longer have to go to "teachers and preachers" to know right from wrong. With Christ in us, he transforms us, we could never do it on our own.

Jer_31:33-34

Heb_10:16-17

Joh_14:26

Joh_15:26

Joh 15:15 

“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Jer 17:5

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD. 

Jer 23:16 

Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the Lord.

Heb 8:10-11

This was supposed to be TODAY...yesterthousandyearsago Jer 31:33-34.

Php_2:12-13

Working out his own salvation and following up with "for it is God who is at work in you."

Not someone, or some denomination in you.

My conclusion: To think thoroughly, that is God. That is what these verses are telling you. Common sense, critical thinking, questioning, riddling, intuition, and all that good stuff equal God, the Spirit of Truth. All the things many denominations will tell you to shut down unless they want to target outsiders to make themselves look like authoritative truth and more honest. That is till when you start asking too many questions or bringing up something they thought was true and wasn't all this time and they panic. Especially when they know you study and research like a K.9 dog. They say turn that off, the natural part of you (meaning, made by God). However, God says to use it, and don't listen to men/women, false religion (or religion in general really), and use what He gave you for your own good.

I think we need to learn how to trust ourselves more, and to do more research on learning how to. Even more so, learn to be honest with ourselves, or we'll fall into a trap. Please don't go all radical and turn this into an ego problem thinking God is "speaking to me". Ground yourself, settle down, and just use common sense and realize, this was written for the simple folk. No one is special (especially the self-proclaimed), but they sure can use their brains like they were meant to. Stop letting other people that do to dictate your belief or dominate you, tell you, you can't.

Most of all, have faith in yourself, what's in you. Hope this helps.