The Christian Canon

[Amarok]

Lol. I think he just mis-pasted the link.

Beware of Christian bearing sources

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Many years of school/church/reading. I found the quote from the wiki article that support that. 

Writings attributed to the Apostles circulated among the earliest Christian communities. The Pauline epistles were circulating, perhaps in collected forms, by the end of the 1st century AD.[a] Justin Martyr, in the mid 2nd century, mentions "memoirs of the apostles" as being read on "the day called that of the sun" (Sunday) alongside the "writings of the prophets."[5] A defined set of four gospels (the Tetramorph) was asserted by Irenaeus, c. 180, who refers to it directly.[6][7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmen...ollections

Although, I thought about this recently. No one has to live by what those councils decided. We still have all the contested documents. We can do incredible things with word usage and sentence structures than ever before. It is easy to reapply some of the same doctrinal-consistency tests the councils would have done back then. The charge that "the winners" decided what was in the Bible is meaningless.  You can re-check their work--with more precision. There is not one book that "should" have been included after reexamination. There are some epistles that might not be from Paul--so? Did any doctrine change? Any new teaching get introduced? No.

Like Nixon's 18 minute gap, there appears to be a large undocumented gap between the writings in the first century and the consolidation that began in the latter second century.  The Dead Sea Scrolls point to the possibility that there was much more going on during that time than we are aware of today.  I'm not inclined to give a vague reference to your cumulative life experience and reading much credence, especially given your background and prior attempts to defend canon.  If you have something specific to add, I would be most interested.  Otherwise I'm inclined to just disregard your comment.

 Now watch them chant "argument from silence "