Never liked Book of John—Makes Jesus all God—very unlike other Gospels. I also like much of the Book of Thomas—that was not included. The Hymm of the Shepard —also not included is good—as well as the Coptic Book of Enoch (used by Jude). The Bible has many elements—its a library of books—inspired by God but organized by man.
I'm not quite sure what you by this.
The book of John is basically theology. He lived longer than the synoptic Gospel writers and was inspired in this way.
Dig down to the second and third levels to understand John. It’s been said by theologians that EVERY word in John is important.
What is quite interesting about the Gospel of Thomas is that the same scientific methods of determining that Matthew, Mark, and Luke came from the first century A.D. have also determined that of the many so-called lost gospels, the Gospel of Thomas seems to be unique in that it also came from the first century - around 70 A.D. - the same time range given to Matthew, Mark and Luke.
I forgot to mention this...
Yes, the 27 NT and 39 OT books were inspired by God and organized (compiled) by men, but God has never sent down a list of books with a note attached to them saying “Here are your inspired scriptures to read.”
So if there is inspired scripture, but no inspiration in the act of compiling them, then short of men becoming Absolute Beings and absolutely incapable of error when organizing and binding together books they consider to be inspired scripture, then the question arises: were these men and councils ascending to God-level when compiling them?
Because, as we can see, by looking at the oldest Greek manuscripts available (Codex A, S, and B) each of them contains at least one book that is not considered scripture by Protestants, Catholics and Coptics and going back further the Clermont list and Muratorian fragment each contains books not considered to be inspired by catholic, Protestants and Coptics.
If there is inspiration in compilation is it equal in inspiration to inspired scripture? If not, then that would explain all of the errors in compilation from the second century until now.