“Then why do you use the exact list that the Catholic church formalized?”
Simply because those are the surviving works of the NT era that are inspired by God. If the Catholics came to the same conclusion, then that’s great, they got it right that time. It does not follow that if I agree with them on one point, I am accepting their authority, or must agree with them on every other point.
“Why then do the Vulgates which predate Protestants have the exact same NT?”
Just as being in agreement on one point doesn’t necessitate agreement on all points, the converse is also true. Protestants don’t have to disagree with Catholics on everything. Despite what some might think, it’s not our primary purpose in life to look at everything the Catholics are doing, and then do the opposite :)
“Simply because those are the surviving works of the NT era that are inspired by God.”
There are plenty of other works which survive that are not canon.
“If the Catholics came to the same conclusion, then that’s great, they got it right that time.”
Let me ask you something. Suppose you look around and find something that you didn’t know before. What would you think if looked back and found that it’s been known a thousand years prior?
“Oh, wow, they got it right this time”.
Or would you start to ask yourself -
“Why didn’t I know about this earlier?”
“It does not follow that if I agree with them on one point, I am accepting their authority, or must agree with them on every other point.”
I’m just saying. You got it from us. Not the other way around. The bible predated Protestants. Protestants didn’t create the bible. Before there was anything that could even conceivably be called a Protestant, the bible had been in existance for over a thousand years.
What you guys did - was take our book and crib off of it. That’s it.