“Nothing against the Old Testament, but the church did NOT wait 400 years before using the New as Scripture. Most of the 27 book canon was accepted without question, but about 5 books were in doubt - and several other possible candidates were considered (and thus, being used by some congregations at that time).”
Actually, more than several, and a number of the contending canons were quite short. The best story revolving around the canon concerns the widespread adoption of Hebrews and Revelation. The East accepted Hebrews early on. The West soundly rejected it. Similarly, the East rejected Revelation. There was a deal of sorts whereby the East promised to accept Revelation if the West accepted Hebrews. The West accepted Hebrews and we waited until the 8th century to accept Revelation and even at that we never use it.
Now this is a fact. Not an opinion, or matter of faith. Doesn't this fact completely destroy any sort of notion of "sola scriptura"? ... and if it doesn't, and the Protestants believe God's "tractor beam" was still in complete control of the compilation of the Bible, can somebody please tell me at what point the Holy Spirit abandoned the Church and made it obsolete so men could go off and form 30,000 churches on their own?