One asked me to provide a link. I provided and one commented on it. I disagreed and I am establishing my point from the passage of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
That is it.
Regards
Thank for the link.
I responded to that link.
The Roman Catholic Church claims responsibility for the decision as to which books should be included in the canon, and reference is made to the Councils of Hippo (A.D. 393) and Carthage (A.D. 397), where catalogues of books were formulated.
Councils of Carthage (397)
The Councils of Carthage, or Synods of Carthage, were church synods held during the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries in the city of Carthage in Africa.
CHURCH FATHERS: Council of Carthage (A.D. 419)
The canon however, was already settled by then, not by the decree of any council, but by the usage of Christian congregations throughout the ancient world.
One authority says,
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The organized church, as such, did not create the Canon; It recognized the canon which had already been created... For it goes without saying that the Church, understood as the entire body of believers, created the Canon. But this Canon grew, in fact, from the bottom upwards, in the communities, among the believers, and only later was officially legitimized from the top... it was not the reverse; it was not imposed from the top, be it by bishops or synods.”
It is not the RCC that determines the authenticity of the scriptures,
which I pointed out, and was asking you confirmation about, but if you don't want to address it that's fine.
The fragments of Muratori is a small part of that evidence.
The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian Canon(18:02) or Canon Muratori, is a copy of perhaps the oldest known list of most of the books of the New Testament. The fragment, consisting of 85 lines, is a 7th-century Latin manuscript bound in a 7th or 8th century codex from the library of Columbanus's monastery at Bobbio Abbey;
it contains features suggesting it is a translation from a Greek original written about 170 or as late as the 4th century. Both the degraded condition of the manuscript and the poor Latin in which it was written have made it difficult to translate. The beginning of the fragment is missing, and it ends abruptly.
The fragment consists of all that remains of a section of a list of all the works that were accepted as canonical by the churches known to its original compiler. It was discovered in the Ambrosian Library in Milan by Father Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), the most famous Italian historian of his generation, and published in 1740.
The unidentified author accepts four
Gospels, the last two of which are
Luke and
John, but the names of the first two at the beginning of the list are missing. Scholars find it highly likely that the missing two gospels are
Matthew and
Mark, although this remains uncertain.
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Document states that the writer of this Bible book was a physician. (Colossians 4:14)
The Fragment confirms that the book of Acts of Apostles was written by Luke for the “most excellent Theophilus.” (Luke 1:3; Acts 1:1) Then it goes on to list the letters of the apostle Paul to the Corinthians (two), to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, to the Galatians, to the Thessalonians (two), to the Romans, to Philemon, to Titus, and to Timothy (two). The letter of Jude and two letters of John are also mentioned as inspired books. The apostle John’s first letter was already alluded to, along with his Gospel. Apocalypse, or Revelation, concludes the list of the books considered inspired.
The Muratorian Fragment evidently confirms that most of the books now found in the Christian Greek Scriptures were already considered canonical in the second century C.E.
Other evidence...
Clement and Origen of Alexandria recognized Paul as the author of his letters.
Clement of Alexandria
Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria (Greek: Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; c. 150 – c. 215), was a Christian theologian who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. A convert to Christianity, he was an educated man who was familiar with classical Greek philosophy and literature. As his three major works demonstrate, Clement was influenced by Hellenistic philosophy to a greater extent than any other Christian thinker of his time, and in particular by Plato and the Stoics. His secret works, which exist only in fragments, suggest that he was also familiar with pre-Christian Jewish esotericism and Gnosticism. In one of his works he argued that Greek philosophy had its origin among non-Greeks, claiming that both Plato and Pythagoras were taught by Egyptian scholars.[3] Among his pupils were Origen and Alexander of Jerusalem.
Clement is usually regarded as a Church Father. He is venerated as a saint in Coptic Christianity, Ethiopian Christianity and Anglicanism. He was previously revered in the Roman Catholic Church, but his name was removed from the Roman Martyrology in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V on the advice of Baronius.
Eusebius of Caesarea
The names of the apostles of our Saviour are known to every one
from the Gospels. But there exists no catalogue of the seventy
disciples. Barnabas, indeed, is said to have been one of them, of
whom the Acts of the apostles makes mention in various places, and
especially Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians.
They say that Sosthenes also, who wrote tothe Corinthians with
Paul, was one of them.
Paul, that "chosen vessel," "not of men neither
through men, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ himself and of
God the Father who raised him from the dead," was appointed an
apostle, being made worthy of the call by a vision and by a voice
which was uttered in a revelation from heaven.
Origen of Alexandria (c. 184 – c. 253), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and biblical hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. He was one of the most influential figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and asceticism. He has been described as "the greatest genius the early church ever produced".
What gives evidence that the Bible’s books are the product of holy spirit is their content. They all support the authorship of Jehovah God and are in complete harmony. The harmony and balance of the 66 canonical books of the Bible testify to their unity and completeness. 2 Timothy 3:16, 17.