“Second, if given what we know about God’s purposes in giving the inspired books ‘it necessarily follows that He would guide His people (the Church),’ then Protestants will need to abandon ecclesial deism. It would be ad hoc to maintain that God will guide His Church to recognize the canon, but not guide His Church to recognize orthodoxy from heresy between 451 to 1517.”
http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2010/01/the-canon-question/#comment-6305
Second, if given what we know about God’s purposes in giving the inspired books “it necessarily follows that He would guide His people (the Church),” then Catholics will need to abandon their selective ecclesial deism. It would be ad hoc to maintain that God will guide His Church to recognize the 66 books of canon, but not guide His Church to recognize orthodoxy from heresy at the Westminster Assembly.
Meh. If we're ecclesial deists, they're ecclesial pantheists
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