"If I pick up a Douay Rheims Bible or a KJV or an NIV, I find God's plan of salvation to mankind preserved in each and every one. Yes, there are some differences based upon translations and manuscripts used and approach to the text - but the essential message has remained."
Perhaps you've read The Shepherd or the Gospel of Barnabas or the Epistles of Clement to the Corinthians. Do you think they too present God's plan for salvation? If not, why not?
I find it difficult to understand your explanation of your acceptance of the canon of the NT as decided by The Church as being a matter of Faith. Faith in whom? God? The Church? Both? Did God tell you this? Do you believe that the HS simply told the bishops what to do in a piecemeal fashion over nearly 400 years or was it like Mohammad having the words of the Evil One dictated to him by a demon masquerading as Gabriel? In fact, if the Holy Traditions these bishops held to are "non-scriptural" and thus worthy of Protestant disdain, did those Traditions come from demons? If they did, are you sure it wasn't the same demon or demons which lead them over 400 years to establish the canon of the NT?
Your faith argument simply doesn't hold up, Blogger. You believe the canon of the NT as you read it is the definitive canon because The Church said so 1700 years ago.
Thank you for calling me a liar. I stand by my statement.