***I don’t doubt for a moment that The Church finalized the canon under the inspiration of the HS. ***
Good, we agree on that. My concern is that when you say “created” it means a man made cannon. In other words, a story, uninspired, like the stories I write. Fiction, in other words. If what is in the book is not directed, inspired, created, protected by God, it is a work of fiction created by man. Do you see my point?
I will grant that the church has compiled, collated, collected, (insert any other “C” words here )the books of the Bible under the direction of the Holy Spirit who works in man. Can we agree on that?
“Can we agree on that?”
Yes, we can. I do think, however, that the process the bishops went through in compiling, collating and collecting is very important to an understanding of the result. That’s why I said that they were not automotons. That, in a nutshell, is what Mohammad claimed for himself, and his devotees do the very same to this day. The result is a book which the dark souls of Mohammedanism hold to be sacred in and of itself, by that I mean the bindings and pages themselves, because it is the EXACT word of the demon to whom they gave as a name the Arabic word for God, Allah, as opposed to the divinely inspired writings of holy men which we, as The Church always has, hold the bible to be.