How do Protestants know which Canon to use?

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I hear my Presbyterian friend use the Westminster Confession of Faith as one of his key sources. I’ve never read it, but I assume it’s a Calvinist document.
 
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BrianH:
No the stuff you highlighted was just spin. I gave the facts that showed that Sacred Tradition was very wishy washy. Thankfully God in his providence gave us the scriptures in spite of the early church not being able to make up its mind due to relying on human reason. God is not the author of confusion. Catholicism was confused.
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As you rely on scriptures alone I would expect you to be concerned. You can not establish why you use the canon you do, nor can you establish where the canon originated. How do you know your canon is correct?

The title of this thread is “Protestants: How do you know which Canon to use?” You haven’t answered that.
 
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JSmitty2005:
This sentence of yours is correct. So, knowing that God is not the author of confusion, we can conclude that He is not the author of Sola Scriptura Protestantism (which is also known as confusion). 😉
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You hit that one out of the park! :clapping: Beautiful.
 
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BrianH:
No the stuff you highlighted was just spin. I gave the facts that showed that Sacred Tradition was very wishy washy. Thankfully God in his providence gave us the scriptures in spite of the early church not being able to make up its mind due to relying on human reason. God is not the author of confusion. Catholicism was confused.
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Err…

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So… it shows that the canon of scripture was not decided even early on… and that strengthens your position how?

What did the early protestants do if the canon had not been decided?

In Christ.

Andre.
 
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VociMike:
I used the “Quote” function but the text didn’t come through. Nonetheless, the whole QM analogy is loaded with assumptions. How do we know that the apostles even existed? How do we know they wrote the scriptures they are claimed to have written? If Paul existed and wrote the words attributed to him, how come his words are scripture (he was never even with Jesus), but things which may have been written by others who did hear Jesus are not scripture? And why did this inspiration end with the apostles? Were the apostles incapable of teaching the full and complete faith to anybody after them? If they were capable, then why can’t we find scriptures written by those who followed the apostles? And how do we know that everything was written down in the scriptures? And so on and so on.
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These are very good points VociMike, I hadn’t considered them, thanks!
 
Good replies NPS, Lazerlike42, and Philthy!

As I suspected this person on the other board seems to dislike history in general. It’s amazing how Protestants pick and choose which history to believe!
 
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