The Church and the Canon of Scripture

You ever notice how The Bible never lists its own table of contents?

No appendix, no inspired ISBN number. Peter didn't pen a table of

contents, neither did Paul, nor James, nor Jude, not John,

not Mark, not Luke, not Matthew. And as He was ascending into

Heaven, Jesus Christ didn't lean over the clouds and shout a Heavenly footnote

saying, "By the way, look out for these 27 books."

No, what we have in the New Testament is letters, just letters,

occasional histories written to people who already knew what a bishop was, already knew