Glad to see Saint Steven calling you out on the same epistemological contradiction that I pointed out at post 273, namely, Sola Scriptura ("the bible is my only authority") is hopelessly self-contradictory, laughably so, because it begs the whole question as to by what authority did I come to accept Scripture as my authority.
Here Steve was, likewise, insinuating that you had to rely on SOME kind of reality, perceived as authoritative, such as the RCC, or your own reasoning, to arrive at the conclusion that the canon is correct and/or complete. This authority (whatever it might be) is, for you, a HIGHER authority than Scripture because it dictates your decision to accept or reject Scripture. Like it or not.
In my post (273), I succeed, in my opinion, in pinpointing that authority (conscience). To deny the authority of conscience leads to contradiction, as that post demonstrated, such as:
(1) it would construe God as evil and unjust.
(2) it would repudiate the authority of the Inward Witness (the Voice of direct revelation), both in everyday evangelism, daily sanctification, and the biblical theophanies. See John 10:27, 'My sheep know my voice'.
Many Christians live under the delusion that the OT saints were under the written law. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Hebrew word qowl (voice) occurs 500 times in the OT, it is consistently sonic with perhaps one exception. The expression, 'Obey my Voice (qowl)' occurs some 50 times in the OT. Moreover, the word 'obey' in Hebrew literally means 'Hearken as unto a voice'. Whereas The expression 'obey my laws' is almost never found in the OT (unless you're reading the misleading NIV translation and such).
Nothing has changed. In both testaments, the Voice, insofar as it speaks through conscience (see my post 273), is authoritative.