to faithfully gather, preserve, transmit, translate, and authorize the sacred canon, and, in the case of the NT, to write the Scriptures.
And here you are wrong FRiend.
The Holy Spirit didn't "come upon the church." Scripture never says this.
"First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
"All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God[a] may be thoroughly equipped for every good work."
NOTE:
Men spoke from God.This covers ALL Scripture.
All Scripture - including the Hebrew Scriptures - is God-breathed.
What they write is not from themselves or their own experiences or desires.
They are not the source.
The Church is not the source.
The Church is not the goal - it is that MEN may have salvation and everything needed for maturity.
Men moved by God are just the channel.The truth is entirely God's truth.
How they spoke the Scriptures is controlled by the Holy Spirit.IN FACT, what Scripture teaches is this:
The Holy Spirit is the divine author of all Scripture.
“I’m saying the Holy Spirit used the Church founded by Christ as His instrument to faithfully gather, preserve, transmit, translate, and authorize the sacred canon, and, in the case of the NT, to write the Scriptures.”
I’m saying you are wrong. The Holy Spirit used individual disciples purposed by Jesus Christ to write, gather, preserve, transmit, translate, and authorized the sacred canon.
“The Church” is all believers and not all believers contributed to the Bible only a select few.
We born again believers are all individual bricks in the building/Temple of God with Jesus Christ being the Chief Cornerstone.
So no the Holy Spirit didn’t use the Church, but He did use individuals.
John 4:22
You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.
