What is intellectually dishonest is to presume that anti-Catholicism played no role in the efforts by the Reformation to undermine the authority of the Church on a broad front that included disputing the canonicity of any books that ran contrary to Reformationist doctrines. It is also equally dishonest to contend that Catholic defense of the full 72 book Canon is based upon anything other than the Apostolic Tradition and early Magisterium that produced the New Testament.
I do realize that nothing I post will accomplish what 500 years of Catholic apologetics has not accomplished, but then again, you won't have much success either.
Athenasius didn’t support that view.
The issue, if it is raised, is simply to identify the Canon.
Feel free to provide the justification for the books which are contained within it.
It’s foolish to turn that search into contention.