Okay. So how can you prove that the four Gospels are the Inerrant Word of God Inspired by the Holy Spirit?
What authority did God give to you?
Can't the same be asked of Rome?
After all; she 'gave' me...
1 John 2:7-8, 26-297 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because[a] the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.26 I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 27 But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
28 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
Heck; even your claimed 'first pope' has WRITTEN:
2 Peter 1:3 nivHis divine power has given us everything we need
for a godly life through our knowledge of him
who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Why that is just what those of the historical magisterium asked an itinerant preacher, who responded by asking them a question, since the implicit answer refuted their challenge, (Mark 11:27-33) and thus I will do likewise.
Okay. So how can you prove that the four Gospels are the Inerrant Word of God Inspired by the Holy Spirit? What authority did God give to you?
OK. Challenge accepted. Tell me how could you, as a first century Christian who would be faced with an itinerant preacher invoking Hebrew writings as Scripture, which the historical magisterium rejected, know that such writings were the Inerrant Word of God Inspired by the Holy Spirit, and I will tell you how devout seekers and lovers of Divine Truth souls could know other men and writings were of God.
Also, if faith in the RCC is essential to assuredly know what is of God, how can you know that the RCC is the uniquely the on true church?
And as for "prove," since it took Rome over 1400 to settle Cath scholarly disagreements on the canon, and 'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," (VEHEMENTER NOS, an Encyclical of Pope Pius X promulgated on February 11, 1906) and in notes (required) - and even more so in "study helps - of the official RC bible for America, for decades taught that such literal historical events as the Flood of Noah were legends (and even after criticisms and revisions, the notes to the NABE for the book of Jonah states that "As to genre, it has been classified in various ways, such as parable or satire," and explains "Let us make" in Gen. 1:26 as "in the ancient Near East, and sometimes in the Bible, God was imagined as presiding over an assembly of heavenly beings who deliberated and decided about matters on earth," and Ex. 10:19 as "the Hebrew literally means “sea of reeds” or “reedy sea,” which could probably be applied to a number of bodies of shallow water, " and that the Genesis 6:1-4 text is "apparently alluding to an old legend), then how does this prove Scripture is the Inerrant Word of God Inspired by the Holy Spirit?
You asked for it.