Who cares. The scribes who penned the NT Gospels did not identify themsleves by name. A lot of Orthodox copyists did the same thing thinking themeslves unworthy. Doing otherwise would be considered arrogant and vain.
Besides, if you believe there is nothing in the Bible that was not according ot God's will, then leaving thier names unknown was God's will that was violated when the Church added their names.
If your premise is correct about the contents of the Bible, then God didn't want them known, but the Church added them at the end of the 2nd century (against God's will accoridng to your suppositions).
So why does your Church then continue to violate God's will by identifying the books by the names of those God allegedly wanted to be anonymous?
Only God has the authority to say what the faith is and He chose some at the beginning to transmit it.
But the Church decided which books to include and who the scribes were.
The point is that we don't know and we will never know this side of Heaven. There was a reason for the anonymity, FK.
So why does your Church then continue to violate God's will by identifying the books by the names of those God allegedly wanted to be anonymous?
The Catholic Church is bad, evil, the antiChrist, the whore of Babylon according to a great many who self identify as Christian. Yet, they accept the entire NT, and most of the OT selected by the Church. They accept Christmas and Easter. They accept Sunday worship (well, most of them). They accept the Trinity (well, most of them). Yet they reject the Church. Worse than cafeteria Catholics, in my estimation.
But the Church decided which books to include and who the scribes were.
The Church had and has the authority. The Protestants tacitly acknowledge it, yet publically repudiate it. Else, the aforementioned rulings of the Church would have been long rejected by these same folks.
Who cares. The scribes who penned the NT Gospels did not identify themselves by name.
The Gospels did not just appear out of nowhere. They are implicitly identified (to the satisfaction of the Apostolic Church I might add) and the original readers certainly knew and gave them weight on that basis.
Besides, if you believe there is nothing in the Bible that was not according to God's will, then leaving their names unknown was God's will that was violated when the Church added their names.
It is not a matter of God not wanting anyone to know the names. More likely it was obvious in the beginning who the authors were and it was God's will that the names be added later for our (those who came later) sakes. At some point reading became independent of the direct or semi-direct oral history. God knew this and provided for that eventuality according to His plan.
FK: Only God has the authority to say what the faith is and He chose some at the beginning to transmit it.
But the Church decided which books to include and who the scribes were.
We have an honest disagreement about that. Rather than give all credit and honor to men for the creation and assembly of God's word, I give all credit and honor to God for God's word. That seems only fair, or it shouldn't be called God's word.