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Originally posted by mcrowder
Can you point me toward the scripture that tells us that the 4 gospels hand-selected from the numerous writings of the time were "inspired" while the others weren't? I can't find that.
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If you compare the Catholic and Protestant Bibles you will discover there still is not total agreement on the canon.
If you put your cynacism on hold and actually looked into the topic of the establishment of the canon, you will discover there were sound standards that were used to distinguish inspired writings from other early Christian writings.
There is 100% agreement in the universal church on the canon of scripture contained in the Protestant bible - that is all demoninations of Christianity agree that all of the Protestant Bible is the inspired canon.
There is partial agreement in the canon of scripture contained in the Catholic bible. Most of the disagreement centers not around the content of the books, but rather such issues as were they in the Jewish canon (for Old Testament) or were they treated as scripture by the 1st century church.
There is near 100% agreement (allowing for the occasional critic and sensationalist) than none of the remainder of the 1st century writings belong in the bible.