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.)
The whole (undivided, catholic and apostolic) Church of the first millennium accepted the "extra" books that were listed in in the (local) Council of Carthage (Third African Council) at the end of the 4th century. The Greek side did not accept Revelation (which is not an "apocryphal" book) of John until the 9th century.
But there are many who do, right here on FR, many of whom are your Reformed believers and allies.
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.
Obfuscation. The Church went into locked rooms to debate over a century and a half and came out with the NT Scripture.
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. :)
What else would you call it?
God's Church was given the correct canon and accepted it both according to God's timetable.
Can you describe the methodology and the process please?
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.)
Trent merely confirmed what the entire Catholic Church had held from Apostolic times.