Probably YOU, trying for a second time to say I said or did something that I didn't. I ended my post saying that the Holy spirit can guide, but if the men chose to do otherwise, so be it.
And YES, I think the fallible men chose to do what they wanted. First certain books were good enough, then they weren't, then they were good enough again. They obviously made the choice to accept then deny certain books. And NO, I do NOT believe the final product was successful nor error free, IS THAT CLEAR ENOUGH?
And NO, I do NOT believe the final product was successful nor error free, IS THAT CLEAR ENOUGH?
Much clearer.
We have a basic disagreement . . .
You seem to believe that Holy Spirit was incapacitated in terms of His ability to insure that The Canon included all and only all that God wanted in The Canon.
I believe the opposite.
If the above is an accurate summary, then
I think I understand, now.
Throughout Scripture, God moved on fallible men to accomplish HIS purposes.
Moses got rather precise plans for the Tabernacle rather successfully.
Noah built a rather precise ark rather successfully.
David slung a stone at Goliath rather successfully.
Joshua handled Jericho per God’s specific instructions rather precisely and successfully.
Solomon built the Temple rather precisely and successfully.
St Paul seems to have managed a number of missionary journeys rather precisely and successfully with Holy Spirit changing Paul’s plans from time to time rather unexpectedly.
Even the Roman soldiers and the Jewish religious leaders—evidently by Holy Spirit’s agency—”managed” the Crucifixion and garden tomb rather precisely and successfully per Biblical prophecies they had no clue about.
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Yet, by 300-400 years later . . . is it your conviction . . . that
Holy Spirit had become old and feeble and unable to fully manage compiling The Canon precisely and successfully . . . or what?
I still have a hard time understanding this seems to imagine God’s Holy Spirit to be limited in achieving God’s goals.