[Conservative til I die]

You take too much credit and, as usual, the prerogatives of God for your church, when you dismiss the role of God in forming and transmitting both the Devine nature of God-breathed Scripture and the canonization. History is quite clear - the deductions you make that your church was anything more than a tool in the Creator's hand is laughable.

Where in the Bible does it say what the Canon is? How did you come to know what the Canon is? A Canon which matches that of the Catholic Church nminus 7 books? And if you didn't decide on your Canon personally, by whose authority was the Canon set>

[gscc]

Very simple - the only role that man-kind played in the formation of Scripture and the canon was as a tool. God didn't need the Apostle Paul or Peter to write Scripture, he didn't need the Church to tell us what the canon was - the Creator chose to use His creation to convey the scripture and formalize them as canon.