Why you believe what you believe I

[Elfhelm]

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

The books that were discarded by the early church fathers were discarded for very good reasons. They had fallacies of various kinds, some of them theological. There was a very careful process that was used before a book was accepted as Biblical. If this were not true, the Bible would have been found invalid as a source book centuries ago.

Honestly, do you really think that the church fathers should have accepted every book that was proposed to them as infallible scripture?

There are two things I want to say about this. First, you said that the scriptures were divinely inspired. Then you admitted that some books were tossed (from the Old Testament as well as the New, by the way). So it stands to reason that the decision to toss a book is divinely inspired as well. In particular, you say theological fallacies were behind the decision. So that means the judgement of what is fallacious in some books was also divinely inspired.

That means I will have to ask God what exactly is fallacious in Thomas. *shrug*