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> It's also strange that Protestants trust the Orthodox/Catholic church to decide what is scripture

They... don't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Bible

And who decided what the "New Testament" is? Hint, not the Protestants...

There was no such thing as Protestant when the canon was formalized, and the reformation had nothing to do with canon.

> the reformation had nothing to do with canon

Canonical issues were debated during the "reformation", including canonicity of certain New Testament works (there are famous Luther quotes that often get brought out).

he must meant that they have not changed the NT canon at the end.

The fact that the analysis that Protestants did failed to disagree with the Catholics on that point doesn’t mean thet let the Catholics decide the Scripture; had they done so, their decision would not have varied from that of thd Catholics on any point, but it did, because thet decided for themselves.

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