I always find it interesting that the same protestants who could care less about what Catholics believe, accept the New Testament as it was assembled by Catholics at the Council of Nicaea as divine and perfect.
That’s a Roman myth, the Council of Nicaea didn’t assemble the New Testament. It simply codified what was already recognized as the New Testament, largely due to people trying to add gnostic books to it.
If you don't want a snark answer but a serious one, most of us Protestants who love church history disagree with your premise that the Roman Catholic Church existed back in the 4th century, at least nothing like it's been like for the past thousand years. When I read the Book of Acts I see neither a pope nor a Martin Luther in the first century church.
I also assert that the 4th century Council of Nicaea was at a time when the western Christians were much more of a conciliar structure, long before people like Leo pushed for papacy power and such. Basically, Constantine called on church leaders to pray and come together to discus the big issues instead of deciding the canon on his own. In many ways, that sounds more like leadership structure in some modern Protestant churches than the modern RCC.
If you don't want a snark answer but a serious one, most of us Protestants who love church history disagree with your premise that the Roman Catholic Church existed back in the 4th century, at least nothing like it's been like for the past thousand years. When I read the Book of Acts I see neither a pope nor a Martin Luther in the first century church.
I also assert that the 4th century Council of Nicaea was at a time when the western Christians were much more of a conciliar structure, long before people like Leo pushed for papacy power and such. Basically, Constantine called on church leaders to pray and come together to discus the big issues instead of deciding the canon on his own. In many ways, that sounds more like leadership structure in some modern Protestant churches than the modern RCC.
The correct expression is "who couldn't care less." For if one could care less, one would.
Who assembled Scripture into one volume is totally irrelevant.
They didn’t write it and they don’t own it and claiming to be the ones who assembled it, doesn’t give them the ability to claim either one.
Except it didn't. The canon of Scripture was not discussed at the First Council of Nicaea.
And if one does a little homework one will find the NT canon was largely in place before the 2nd century.
The OT canon had already been defined by Christ and it did not include the Apocrypha.