>I’m pretty sure the folks who had some version before the council of Nicaea figured they had the end all be all version
For a pretty damn good reason, considering what's contained…
>the Church exists in the dispositions and properties in which the Father and the Son exist, as I have said from the start. Therefore, it subsists in the procreations of innumerable aeons. Also in an uncountable way they too beget, by the properties and the dispositions in which it (the Church) exists. For these comprise its association which they form toward one another and toward those who have come forth from them toward the Son, for whose glory they exist. Therefore, it is not possible for mind to conceive of him - He was the perfection of that place - nor can speech express them, for they are ineffable and unnameable and inconceivable. They alone have the ability to name themselves and to conceive of themselves. For they have not been rooted in these places.
So basically this means that anyone who creates a human-led organization and pretends to have authority over the church is a straight up fraud. These scriptures make it very clear that no mortal man could possibly call themselves an authority on God's will.
That's an example of a really solid reason to believe in it's authenticity, because instead of attempting to bestow God's authority on any specific humans (as cults do) it explicitly states that it is impossible for men to serve as authorities on the church.
You may have replied to the wrong person then. I never claimed such a thing.
So what are you on about then? My first post here was saying the exact opposite: That people had good reason to believe in the scriptures that weren't included by the council.