If The Protestant Canon Were True…

"One thing about the Christians in the early Church: they fought for the truth of the faith with all they had. They gave their lives for it. And if someone proposed something false, something heretical, something that changed the deposit of faith given to the Apostles, they raised the alarm. Fear, fire, foes, awake!

"So that is what we would expect when Augustine changed the canon of Scripture four hundred years after Christ. We would see an outrage, or an ecumenical council, or something that would signal a change to the demonstrably obvious canon that had been accepted by Church Fathers and the early Church.

"Yet that didn’t happen."

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"If the Protestant canon were always true, why wasn’t there an uproar when Augustine changed it?"