"Thank you for calling me a liar. I stand by my statement."
Who told you the canon you read is definitive? God? An angel? Its not in scripture, Blogger, nowhere! +Paul had faith that the scripture he read was definitive, but what he read isn't what you read as the NT or the OT. The NT wasn't put together and the OT you read hadn't been defined then. Did God lie to +Paul? Was +Paul wrong but Blogger right?
Yes. God has showed me and I believe it by faith. The dichotomy between Paul and myself is false as is the distinction between the Old and New Testaments. Paul covers the gospels in 1 Corinthians 15:3-For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.
Peter covers the epistles: 2 Peter 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Are they named by name in Scripture? Of course not. This is where the faith in GOD comes in. He promised to lead. I believe He has done so in my own life as well as in the settling of the Canon of Scripture. My faith is in the God who is faithful, not the church who sometimes gets things wrong (check the Corinthians and Galatians for example).
He promised the following:
I am the good shepherd; I know My sheep and My sheep know Me. They . . . will listen to My voice” (John 10:14-16).
Psalm 48:14
David proclaimed under inspiration - For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
And Jesus said in John 16:13
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
I take Him at His Word and like the Bereans search the Scriptures. By lining up what is said with Scripture and looking to the Holy Spirit as my guide, I have confidence in what I read as the Word of God - a confidence no man can take away.