[Antoninus]

Does Almighty God need men to dictate to Him what they would and would not receive as binding and authoritative?

You spend an awful lot of words to try to refute what's obvious. God divinely ordained the Fathers of the Church and gave unto them the power to discern which Books belong in Sacred Scripture, and which to not. He did not give that power to a bunch of rebels who happened along 1,500 years after His resurrection and forever shattered Christian unity into 40,000 fragments.

[boatbums]

And you spend an awful lot of words IGNORING what I asked. What should be obvious is that God's word has intrinsic authority whether or not men accepted it. Scripture is holy because it is from God. This "bunch of rebels", as you call them, understood this truth far better than those who presumed to label the writings of uninspired men (who admitted they were not prophets) as from the Holy Spirit. Rome tried to position the Catholic church above the word of God and that is STILL defended. Have you ever stopped to think WHY they would want to do that?