What the Scriptures and the Church teach do nothing to contradict a humble love of God, nor especially, transfer that love to prideful love of self, nor to a creature.
Some protestants and jews claim that worshiping Christ, or the Blessed Sacrament is doing just that - leading people to worship a mere man, or a piece of bread. However, the faith is very explicit in teaching that the humanity of Christ is only adorable (literal adoration) insofar as it is connected to the Divine Person. Likewise, the Blessed Sacrament is adored because the belief is that during the Mass it is substantially changed to the body, blood, soul, and most importantly, divinity of Christ. So, even if a priest deliberately failed to consecrate the Blessed Sacrament, and presented mere bread for people's adoration, morally, they would still be adoring God, even if objectively they were mislead by a deceitful priest -because the subjective reason for adoring a consecrated host is because of its substantial identification with the divinity of Christ.
In the hypothetical you pose, you propose that someone come and claim to be Christ and set about showing the Scriptures are false. This would require a principle of demonstration which directly contradicts a humble love of God and of neighbor, which is what the Scriptures contain. Such things cannot be of God and in themselves would contradict the claim of divinity of such a person, and would contradict the reason for revelation in the first place. That is to say, the only purpose in seeking to dispose of the Scriptures would be to dispose of their message, which is a message of love. Such a purpose cannot be of God, but is characteristic of His enemies.
I find it an irony that protestants claim to love the scriptures, but their founders deliberately disposed of parts of the Bible which require one to avoid sin in order to serve God and attain salvation. I think Martin Luther was an antichrist, who precisely claimed that certain books of the Bible were false - including New Testament books which all scholarship agrees were written by Apostles. The effect of Luther and his associated protestants were to lead people into an ease with sin, a prideful presumption that they would reach paradise irrespective of this, and a promotion of a very great hatred of their contemporary Christians, who at that time were all either Catholic or Orthodox Christians, whose differences were at that time mostly disciplinary, not doctrinal.
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