Minimalist Wrote:Otherwise, Stim, G-C would be assuring you with the same pompous certainty that whatever book was voted in place of that piece of garbage was equally true and "inspired."
For them it's a never ending cycle of where "God's inspiration" can be 'seen' though. The simple answer to the fact that e.g. only 4 Gospels out of the many out there made it into the canon is because that was what God wanted.
Divine inspiration will always 'explain' whatever history uncovers...
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle