Not at all!!!!!!
It was GOD who preserved his word!!! He obviously used the Catholic Church but then he also used Balaam's ass to achieve his purposes, didn't he?
You seem to worship at the feet of the Catholic Church. It is God who is responsible for the state of the Cannon and not any man or organization. Those men who compiled the cannon did so at the direction of the Holy Spirit. The Catholic Church, like Balaam's ass, was merely an instrument in the hands of God.
Hmmmmm....is it appropriate to be comparing the Catholic Church to an ass????
Prove it without making any reference to that "ass" or the people within it. Prove that the Bible is the Word of God. You base your faith on a circular argument, quite frankly. Mine is based on the witnesses of the Catholic Church. I accept their proclamation. I don't worship the Church. I recognize it as being sent by God. You do remember that part of Scripture, that "as the Father has sent Me, so I send you (apostles)?
It is God who is responsible for the state of the Cannon and not any man or organization.
Naturally, God is responsible for EVERYTHING. But man is responsible for secondary causes. Did God make you directly type your ridiculous statement above? By allowing you to continue to exist, yes. But you and whatever spirit abides within you is the one that typed those lines.
A quick glance at the bible will show that God works through other people over and over again. He chooses to allow us to participate in His work because He loves us.
And finally, what did the Catholic Church use as a basis for determining Scriptures? Did they not already have a body of teachings and use it as a reference? Anything that matched what they had as a reference was obviously Scripture, anything that made the claim but taught something alien to the Body of teaching was left out. That's how the Canon was formed. We don't believe it came into being like the Koran, delivered by an angel.
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