the areas highlighted give the roman catholic church power and knowledge of all crime/sin over every christian, the power to forgive sin or not and hence control who gets into heaven. Jesus said the opposite - only god can judge, and the church of god is within. However the catholic church would have zero power if they preached that sort of message
What's with the eye-rolling? The Gospels NEVER indicated that the Roman Catholic Church (or any other body, for that matter) were given the power to forgive sins and control who gets into heaven. In fact, per the Gospels, we have the words of Jesus who taught His disciples how to pray and give supplication DIRECTLY to the Father. The prototype for this is what we commonly know as the "Lord's Prayer", which contains the words,
"Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors".Jesus gave no indication that church gathering should be forsaken; otherwise, He would have never gone to the synagogues, Himself.
ok, i'll play along. The compilation and editing was decided upon by romans at the council of Nicaea around 400 AD. the earliest of the gospels - scholars estimate 'marks' was written at the earliest 65-70 ad, because he does not mention the sacking of jerusalem by the romans in around 70ad ( a prediction of christ). matthew and luke used the gospel of mark for their gospels, and john's is totally different again.
NONE of the Gospels mentions that the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, not even John's Gospel. His Gospel isn't "totally different", but it has unique testimony that the others do not. That can be said for the other three as well.
also the dead seas scrolls and the gospel of thomas in particular ( one that was removed by the council) would have totally undermined the power of the church funnily enough
Again, I don't get the eye-rolling. The canonical Gospels say absolutely NOTHING that would give the RCC any of the power about which you're complaining. As stated earlier, the Reformation started, NOT due to some mysterious books being found, but by the fact that people read the BIBLE (i.e. the 66 books we've come to know) for themselves and discovered that the teachings of THOSE BOOKS were in stark contrast to what the RCC was claiming.
Plus, the Dead Sea Scrolls are, by and large, nothing more than ancient copies of the VERY SAME Bible books (particularly those of the Old Testament).
oh and neither matthew, mark, luke, or john were apostles who personally witnessed christ
Mark and Luke were not (Luke states from the beginning of his Gospel, that he interviewed eyewitnesses to Christ); Matthew and John, however, were.