Colofornian likes to state the above until you point out that the "All Scripture" means all scripture. Even the scripture the so called "church fathers" decided they didn't like so they threw it out. For example: 1. book of the Wars of the Lord (Num. 21:14) 2. book of Jasher (Josh. 10:13; 2 Sam. 1:18) 3. book of the acts of Solomon (1 Kgs. 11:41) 4. book of Samuel the seer (1 Chr. 29:29) 5. book of Gad the seer (1 Chr. 29:29) 6. book of Nathan the prophet (1 Chr. 29:29; 2 Chr. 9:29) 7. prophecy of Ahijah (2 Chr. 9:29) 8. visions of Iddo the seer (2 Chr. 9:29; 12:15; 13:22) 9. book of Shemaiah (2 Chr. 12:15) 10. book of Jehu (2 Chr. 20:34) 11. sayings of the seers (2 Chr. 33:19) 12. an epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, earlier than our present 1 Corinthians (1 Cor. 5:9) 13. possibly an earlier epistle to the Ephesians (Eph. 3:3) 14. an epistle to the Church at Laodicea (Col. 4:16) 15. and some prophecies of Enoch, known to Jude (Jude 1:14) 16. the manner of the kingdom, written by Samuel (1 Sam. 10:25) 17. the rest of the acts of Uzziah written by Isaiah (2 Chr. 26:22) If this was a trial, you would be ruled out of order for failing to establish a foundation:
1. You failed to prove if ANY of these were EVER regarded as divinely authoritative.
2. You failed to prove if ANY church father even had any of these books in their possession to "toss out."
On top of that, Mormons overlook what Joseph Smith elected to "toss out" of the Book of Mormon...Smith gets a free pass on that, yet you seemingly think the worse of the early church fathers ... not even knowing what they had in their possession.
If those "gold plates" were so, and if Smith's dictation of them were accurate, then we know what he gave to Martin Harris included a portion of 1 Nephi that was not only "lost" but DELIBERATELY never "redictated" by Smith. (What? Did that hat he duck his head into become misplaced?)