Saint Polycarp's dialogue with the Roman Proconsul Statius Quadratus

Gloria Romanorum ^ | 11/30/16 | Florentius

[Antoninus]

This "bunch of rebels", as you call them, understood this truth far better than those who presumed to label the writings of uninspired men.

Your logic necessitates that men didn't truly understand God's will with regard to Sacred Scripture until 1,500 years after it was written. Sorry, but that makes zero sense and never will, no matter how much you torture the history.

[boatbums]

Your logic necessitates that men didn't truly understand God's will with regard to Sacred Scripture until 1,500 years after it was written. Sorry, but that makes zero sense and never will, no matter how much you torture the history.

And you still obfuscate and accuse me of things I didn't say. Anyone can see your straw man argument lacks logic. What I DID say was: Scripture is holy because it is from God. It did not need for church folks to declare it so any more than the Jews could dictate to Almighty God which of His prophets they would heed. He condemned them for their disobedience and mistreatment. Holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit - something your so-called first Pope understood (see II Peter 1:21).

Believers recognized and could hear the voice of God through His prophets and DID differentiate between what came from Him and what were the musings and recollections of non-prophets and wannabes. That certainly didn't start at the Reformation. I wonder what you really know about the history of the Bible? It sounds like you are unaware that the Roman Catholic "canon" was NOT settled up to Trent and that the Reformers were hardly alone in disputing the inclusion of extra-biblical writings as equally inspired to those EVERYONE viewed as Divine. The "tortured" history came from those who needed to diminish Scripture in order to usurp its authority and presume to be its equal. Don't you at least want to know why that happened?