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>>18339547
You don't have the trinity or the Nicene Creed without these councils.

>>18339565
>Pic related
Protestant Church Historian J.N.D Kelly in Early Christian Doctrines p.53

https://books.google.com/books/about/Early_Christian_Doctrines.html?id=UivDgM0WywoC

>Augustine:
[T]here are also others too, of a
different order . . . But as to those two books, one of which is
entitled Wisdom and the other of which is entitled Ecclesiasticus and
which are called “of Solomon” because of a certain similarity to his
books, it is held most certainly that they were written by Jesus
Sirach. They must, however, be accounted among the prophetic
books, because of the authority deservedly accredited to them
[Christian Doctrine 2:8:13 (A.D. 397)]

We read in the books of the Maccabees [2 Mc 12:43] that sacrifice
was offered for the dead. But even if it were found nowhere in the
Old Testament writings, the authority of the Catholic Church, which is
clear on this point, is of no small weight, where in the prayers of the
priest poured forth to the Lord God at his altar, the commendation of
the dead has its place [Care to Be Had for the Dead 3 (A.D. 421)].