Oversimplifying for the sake of illustration, you treat the Bible as the Mormons do their book, in that it was dug up somewhere, and everything came into play all at once. The books of the Bible took a couple of centuries to be decided upon, and there of course was a church, established by Christ Himself, to determine what was inspired. “If I were to record all that took place, not all the books covering the world could contain all that I witnessed” said the apostle John. The Bible cannot be operated on “automatic pilot”; no, it came into a community of believers who had already established a liturgy, practice, and theology.
Mythological religionism...
The Old Testament Canon was known long before Jesus showed up...And none of the Catholic books were in it...And of course that disqualifies any thing the Catholic religion came up with centuries later...
The New Testament was being preached and dispersed around the world with souls being saved hundreds of years before the Catholic religion was even created...
To claim that God is going to sit around for 400 years while some anti-scriptural religion decides what God's scripture consists of is beyond ridiculous...How could you guys even spout such nonsense???
I guess you could characterize it as such.
The Bible WAS fully formed by the time I got around to reading it.
It seems like there is a big religious organization; based in Rome; that wishes it had put all of it's traditions into it at the time they compiled it.
But since SO many of them came along LATER; it's kinda hard to get Everyone convinced now.
Yup!
The Mormon leadership realized that the BoM did NOT contain the stuff they WANTED to do; so 'revelations from GOD' became the BIG doctrine creation machine.
Thus we have the Doctrines and Covenants; as well as the Pearl of Great Price.
Almost as thrilling to read as the books that damned LUTHER! removed from the bible!