2 Timothy 4:3-4 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears
Well, don't just stop there, look at the context -- this preacher
(Timothy) is being exhorted to preach to his church to lead them away from these falsities. Yes, an appointed pastor doing his job.
It's in the context -- biblical support for pastoral preaching, something you've shown some disdain for. Maybe the passage is speaking of you, it says something about them "not enduring sound doctrine" which comes from this preaching via being in attendance?
This is why many leave church and preaching, they don't endure it.
Are you in church?
1 John 4:1 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Of course. This is why preaching and teaching is necessary. It is God's appointed means to equip the saints, something you're not into, which is in rebellion and disobedience to God.
2 Peter 2:1 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Yep. And Peter is directing this to
those in churches, it is a letter written
to the churches, IOW one would have to be in church to have heard this directive. Funny how that works, right?
please tell me where im wrong for preferring Gods word to men speaking on it?
Where are you wrong? You couldn't possibly be wrong, could you?
You're throwing out God's mandate for your preference
(I prefer reading the word, therefore I am justified in rejecting preachers).
Again, what does God say about His appointed men given to the NT church? If you were really in the Word you'd want to hear it preached as well as to feed you, which is why God has appointed pastors. They feed the sheep.
Are you in church? We all get the false teacher warnings.
What do the Scriptures say about the men God has appointed to the church? That's what I'm looking for, not verses you use as an excuse for your attitude about preachers. That being said it would be fair to say your teachings are probably riddled with error. Or no? Do the verses you use above apply to you in that case?
What I am seeing is more than likely a young hoodwinked man who thinks he has the answers, rejects God's appointed men as a convenient excuse, wants to appear spiritually above them, and probably isn't even in church.
I'm not saying this out of a demeaning spirit, but of concern because those who hold this position are on deceptive ground and rarely escape.
If I were in such a case I'd be more concerned with myself than putting God's appointed and decreed means and men down.