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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If you are saying that God did not preserve his word, then it is you who must be on the defensive. The word of God has been preserved by God. Period.
We have God's name, which has been preserved for us, do we not? Surely God's word would have been preserved even if it had to have been preserved by a talking jackass.
You want proof? Here's your proof:
...thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalms 138:2 KJV)
So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11 KJV)
How do you know the Roman Catholic Church is even a church unless you make the circular argument appealing to Matthew 16 as proof.
You have to have a Bible before you can even discuss what a church is or isn't.
It is the Bible which gives us the truth of what a church is or isn't, not any particular church.