I never said that the decision of the Catholic Church CAUSED any Scriptures to be inspired. I was pointing out that there was debate and doubt for a couple of hundred years about what belonged in the canon, and what should be excluded. The Gospel of Thomas and the Shepherd of Hermas were widely accepted as inspired Scripture. The Acts of the Apostles and Revelation were widely rejected.
The final decision was made in the fourth century, by the Pope. If you hold that the 27 books now included in the New Testament belong there, and no others, you are giving your assent to the decision of the Pope.
May I remind you that God used Judas and Balaam’s donkey also?
Sure there was doubt and debate with the robe wearing, indulgence selling apostates...
1Th 5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
The church right from the get go had the scriptures and they multiplied them and passed them out to the churches world wide...
Rom 10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
The final decision was made in the fourth century, by the Pope.
Again, the scriptures that came out of Jerusalem, Syria and that region were circulated world wide Centuries before your religion put together the African scriptures that originated in Egypt and long before any 'Catholic' council was ever established...