The only reason you even know what books belong in your "inspired by God and closed" book is because the "RCC" decreed it, 1600 years ago.
Go ahead: prove to me from the Bible, and the inspired text of the Bible alone, that 1 Peter or Philemon or 3 John belongs in the Bible. You can't, which is why Luther called James an "epistle of straw" and wanted to remove it.
Why are Catholics so loath to give credit to God? If God did use the Catholic Church to preserve scripture they may want to consider that God also used Judas,Balaam's donkey, and Herod.
**The only reason you even know what books belong in your “inspired by God and closed” book is because the “RCC” decreed it, 1600 years ago.**
No. They didn’t.
Keep drinking that Kool-aid though.
The only reason you even know what books belong in your "inspired by God and closed" book is because the "RCC" decreed it, 1600 years ago.
Why do you assume that Christians need the RCC to determine what is of God and what is not? Many years before 400 AD, the apostolic writing was within the churches. They shared their letters. Some true, some false. The false were rejected. The true endured.
Revelation 2. to the angel of the church in Ephesus write... you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.
Polycarp, student of Paul, wrote a letter to the Philippians. In that letter he states that Paul "wrote a letter unto you, into the which if ye look diligently, ye shall be able to be builded up unto the faith given to you,"