You have the Gospel today only through the actions of the Catholic Church. FOr the first 350+ years after the first Pentecost there was no bible, only the verbal Traditions of the Church and later in numerous written accounts, most of which were errant. In 382 AD St. Pope Damasus I, in his efforts to standardize the Mass, called upon the Council of Rome for a formal Lectionary to be used in conjunction with the Liturgy of the Word in the Mass. The council selected 26 books from among nearly 600 texts in circulation based upon the criteria (canon) that they fully comported with Catholic teaching. Therefore, any text, interpretation, doctrine or belief that does not comport with Catholic teaching is not biblical or valid.
Yes, I know. You worship the Roman Catholic Church and/or Catholicism.
Whether you continue with the blustering and repetitious spouting of your dogma and perverted history of your cult, as you have agreed it can be called, or whether you bring anything other than your present hardline/hard-headed/I-don’t-care-what-you-think-I’m-an-RC approach to this forum for Christians, as other RCs have in the past, remains to be proven to us all.
Some of us are contending against the likes of you for the Christian faith as established only by Lord Jesus Christ upon Himself and are not granting an unhindered tyrannical usurpation of the freedoms Christians have in Christ alone, or our freedom to post on FR.
The RCC, however many times you may repeat your own religion’s hook points, is not that Church that Jesus founded. Maybe once it was, in some part, but history (Rev 1-3) and the Spirit indicate not anymore.
God used Judas and Balaam's donkey to further His will also.
Oh?
Just because the various writings were NOT bound together sure doesn't mean they did not exist.
Colossians 4:16
After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.
HMMMmmm...
Nothing about understanding the Traditions of the Church Fathers...