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"But, getting back to your question, the Jews received the writings from the Prophets of the Lord and obeyed God's commands. There was a "canon" of the Scriptures that make up the Old Testament recognized by the Jewish religious community and those books that comprise the New Testament were also recognized by the early Christians as from the Lord just as they did for the Old Testament. The early church's recognition of them is not what made them sacred Scripture, they were God-breathed whether or not anyone received them. God DID lead His sheep to recognize His voice through these writings and we still do, even after all this time."

You didn't answer my question. The original Church had all the writings from the prophets. All of them. More than what is currently contained in the "Bible". Those all were considered scripture.

So, with that in mind, was it God that chose to limit us to this small list of writings in the Bible?

You didn't answer my question.

Well; ain't YOU special!

Professor Robert Millet teaching at the Mission Prep Club in 2004 http://newsnet.byu.edu/video/18773/ <-- Complete and uneditted

Timeline... Subject...

0:59 "Anti-Mormons..."

1:16 "ATTACK the faith you have..."

2:02 "We really aren't obligated to answer everyone's questions..."

3:57 "You already know MORE about God and Christ and the plan of salvation than any who would ATTACK you."

You didn't answer my question. The original Church had all the writings from the prophets. All of them. More than what is currently contained in the "Bible". Those all were considered scripture. So, with that in mind, was it God that chose to limit us to this small list of writings in the Bible?

You may not have agreed with my answer, but I DID answer you. To refresh your memory, here is what you asked:

I would like to ask you a question. Did God compile the Bible? Not the writings in the Bible, but the list of writings contained in the Bible. In other words, did God choose which writings would be in the Bible?

You were referring to the "canon" of Scripture. My answer explained my views about that canon. From the very first century, Christians had sacred Scripture - both from the prophets of the Lord prior to Christ's birth as well as those from the Apostles of Jesus Christ and their select disciples who spoke as they were "carried along by the Holy Spirit". Christians from the first century on recognized and received God's word because the Holy Spirit led them to that truth. Whatever these writings are that you claim the early Christians omitted from the canon (which is just another word for "rule of the faith"), they were NOT accepted as God-breathed Scripture because ALL Scripture is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.(2 Timothy 3:16,17). The Apostles would not have neglected to declare the whole counsel of God.

So, yes, God's hand was working through the Apostles, disciples and early believers to receive those writings that were to be believed and obeyed as FROM God and it is why we can know any later subsequent writings, which may also claim to be from Almighty God, are to be rejected - especially those that contradict any of the words of the Bible. Those passages I gave you from Deuteronomy concerning the qualifications for "prophets of the Lord" still stand. Some guy, eighteen hundred years later cannot dig up some long, lost writings and claim they were originally part of the Bible and that God was powerless to preserve His word for his chosen for all time. That's not how God works.

"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law." (Deuteronomy 29:29)