1. The Church recognized the Bible - the NT. This happened BEFORE Rome insisted on the primacy of their bishop and
left the Orthodox Church.
2. God worked through human agency to write and recognize and preserve His Word.
Glory to Him alone.
Amen!
The Scripture is the inspired word of God, written solely by men. We have no need to claim it was handed down by His angel.
Prophets were sent to change the hearts of men, not to be Walter Cronkite looking into the future.
The history of what is Scripture and what is apocrypha or even blasphemy is long and contentious, both in the Jewish and Christian traditions.