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.
There is nothing explicit that says the Church had the authority to change the scripture, Mark, by adding the names.
Else, the aforementioned rulings of the Church would have been long rejected by these same [Protestant] folks
That is clearly so. But since their whole existence is justified by the rejection of the Church, they would vote themselves out of existence if they were to admit that, on the basic level, they recognize the ecclesial authority of the Catholic Church.
Oh, I never said it was the CHURCH that was antiChrist. LOL! But seriously, here you are mixing faiths to come up with a contradiction. If we DID give credit to the men of the Apostolic Church for the Bible and the other things you mentioned then you would be right that there is hypocrisy. But we don't. We give all that credit to God.
Kosta: But the Church decided which books to include and who the scribes were.
Mark: The Church had and has the authority. The Protestants tacitly acknowledge it, yet publicly repudiate it. Else, the aforementioned rulings of the Church would have been long rejected by these same folks.
No, we do not tacitly acknowledge it, but we do publicly repudiate it. :) We have no rule saying that if the Apostolic Church believes something then it must be wrong. :) God's Church was given the correct canon and accepted it both according to God's timetable. The Apostolic Church (as part of God's Church) was then correct to accept it as well. The Apostolic Church (technically it was the Latin Church) then later erred by adding extra-canonical or dueterocanonical books on its own. (The Orthodox Church is not guilty of the errors of Trent, even though it agrees with some of its holdings.)