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"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."

This is not about taking credit, it is about historical fact. The Scriptures were written within the Catholic Church, they were preserved within the Catholic Church, they were canonized by the Catholic Church, and they were passed on through the Catholic Church. That is historical fact.

"you dismiss the role of God in forming and transmitting both the Devine nature of God-breathed Scripture and the canonization. "

Gscc, this is exactly the opposite of what we are saying. God utilized the Church, His Church to transmit the Scriptures.

"History is quite clear - the deductions you make that your church was anything more than a tool in the Creator's hand is laughable."

The Church is precisely a tool in the hands or the Creator, or more accurately, a servant of the Creator. But the Church is more than that, the Church is also the Bride of Christ, and Christ sacrificed himself for His Church. It seems to me that you are opposing God to His Church. That makes no sense.

I am not "opposing God to His Church." I oppose the pretensions that the Catholic Church had any other role to play than as a tool in the Lord's hand to convey the Scriptures. I do not dispute the historical sequence or chronology of your history - it is the arrogance of supposing God did not choreograph the canonization of the Bible - instead it was the RC Church. Moses wasn't so arrogant as to believe that he had done anything more than follow God's will in leading the Jews out of Egypt. Noah wasn't so arrogant to believe he had done anything other than God's will in saving mankind.

The Scriptures were written within the Catholic Church,

That is total bull.

Romans 3:1 ¶What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.