The Holy Spirit...
...inspired the Bible...
...canonized the Bible;
...what greater authority do you need?
None.
But some people think they have some golden plates miraculously translated by someone with their head in their hat.
Or was that ‘talking out of his hat’? I forget which...
Hmm...that does ring a bell.
(I think that's the same religion whereby those 'miraculously' unveiled golden plates were guided by a ghost named Moroni...for ONLY in that religion do you have the tenet that a resurrected man can advance to angel status...)
That's the irony. That religion pits the Bible vs. its other standard works...reducing it to a council of men who decided which books would be included...all while its main standard work for which they are nicknamed has even by their own admission LOTS of books left out...others "abridged"...and which books to be included on the "golden plates" was apparently decided by just one man about sixteen hundred years ago...IF we are to believe what they say)