There have been men and councils throughout history who have acted as if they ascended to the level of Absolute Being when deciding which inspired books to place within their respectice Canons.
The Muratorian fragment (180 A.D.) and Clermont List (300 A.D.) each has books that Protestants, Catholics and Coptics do not consider to be inspired and the oldest Greek Manuscripts (Codex A, S and B (Vaticanus)) each has books that Protestants, Catholics and Coptics do not consider to be inspired scripture.
If none of theses compilations of scripture got it right and this has occurred throughout the second, third, fourth and fifth centuries then what stock can we place now if they weren’t divine enough to ascend to infinite perfection when deciding what books to place within the canon.
Yes, there is inspired scripture , but we can see from these Codices, the List and the Fragment, that there does not appear to be equal inspiration in organizing/compiling scriptures together.
There have been men and councils throughout history who have acted as if they ascended to the level of Absolute Being when deciding which inspired books to place within their respectice Canons
not sure what the above means, but the Christian Faith is a revealed Faith, no one can come to the truth unless the Holy Spirit leads them to that truth and to the one who is truth itself, the Lord Jesus Christ.
how does the Holy Spirit work to lead men to truth?
thru and by the Apostles and men who had hands laid on them by the Apostles, namely the bishops of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
individual Christians may have had “canons” at various points in time, but once the Church spoke in the 4th century, individual judgement was over.
Jesus Himself gave this authority as recorded in Matthew 28, and using it to settle doctrinal disputes does not equate to them “acting as if they ascended to the level of Absolute Being”.