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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?

20 posted on 02/25/2019 11:58:02 AM PST by boatbums (Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy he saved us.)

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.