“Watch yourself, roamer; Ben requires precision of us, but not of himself”
I said I disagree with the position. But, it is intellectually self-consistant. This is why I respect that position.
There are two consistant Christian positions. One, that the Church was right, accept all the Councils and accept the Canon of the Catholic Church.
Two, reject the canon, reject the councils, accept that you and you alone are to decide what is and ought to be scripture. Take each of the books that are available and make the determination for yourself.
Most Protestants, and others try to adopt a middle position between the two. They accept some of the ecumenical councils, (as many as just one), or they accept only *some* of the books. Protestants are just the latest incarnation of this thought.
By definition Protestants accept 4 ecumenical councils: Nicaea, First Constantinople, Ephesus and Chalcedon. They accept the Canon as set by Luther.
The orthodox accept 7, the first four, plus 2nd, 3rd Constantinople and 2nd Ephesus.
Oriental orthodox rejects Ephesus and Chalcedon. The Assyrians reject Chalcedon. They, however accept the Catholic Canon, as do the orthodox.
The only truly significant contribution of Protestants is that they choose Luther’s canon. That’s basically it. Their claim of addition by subtraction that you can build a better bible by getting rid of books.
The point is, you put words in roamer_1’s mouth, not the historicity of The Canon, or Ecumenical Councils.
You again were dishonest in hour question to roamer_1.
Hoss