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If the identical same catalogue of books (canon) documented to be extant in 382 AD, 405 AD, all the way through 1546 AD (Trent) and continuing to 2018 AD (now) --- that is, 1600+ years of continuity --- is considered unsettled, it's you who have a problem.

I again suggest you do some serious research on this topic. F.F. Bruce, The Canon of Scripture, would be a good start.

But tell me, because I'd really like to know: who authorized the 16th century revised (or, as you might say, "reformed") canon used by your denomination? What person or group of persons by name? What year or even decade, by date? I'd like to look up these gentlemen and check out by what authority, or what qualifications, they claimed the right to determine the Scriptural canon.

The ekklesia.

In 2 Peter 3:16 we have Paul's writings accorded as Scripture ~66AD.

Jesus defined the OT canon in Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51; Luke 24:44....it did not include the apocrypha.

By 200 AD all NT books we have today were accepted by the ekklesia.

" Jesus defined the OT canon in Matthew 23:35; Luke 11:51; Luke 24:44....it did not include the apocrypha."
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There is no canonical list here. This is a list of righteous blood being shed. It does not define a list of books. The very use of the word "apocrypha" here is anachronistic.
"By 200 AD all NT books we have today were accepted by the ekklesia. "

Very interesting. What is the name of that 200 AD or pre-200 AD document you are referring to? The one that has this list?