First is God and He is logical. The matter in contention is whether God would found his Church on a body, or whether He founded it on the observations, deliberations and decisions of a sentient rational being - that being faith. God's Church is based on the solid faith of each and all of it's individual members, not the body of one of them that's chosen by a few of them.
" THE POPES AND COUNCILS PRODUCED WHAT YOU QUOTE."
What I quoted was God's Word that's contained in the Gospels. No pope and no council produced any of the 4 Gospels. They simply recognized the work, as I have.
"THAT COMMITEE FIGURED THIS OUT FOR YOU-"
I am made in the image and likeness of God. I need no committee of similarly endowed individuals to read and understand things for me, in my name, or on my behalf. I also note that God provided none in the beginning, or at any time since then.
"Protestants do, of course, accept the traditional Canon of the New Testament... Sola Scriptura...
I also do not subscribe to sola Scriptura. It is simply an illogical limitation on knowing and understanding reality.
I do not accept the Canon of the Gospels, because they have been annointed as such. I believe them, because I have read them and have concluded that they are a first hand account of God in person having come and taught us who He is. I do not believe that God came to teach any self annointed group of folks about Himself, or that He gave them special powers, keys, ect... The keys to the kingdom belong to each individual, not some group of self appointed specialists.
So it dropped out of the sky. And we all say eureka.