Who chose the books in the Bible?

Answer 1

AnswerThe Council of Jamnia is believed to have decided on the books that would form the Hebrew Bible. However, the Catholic Church included several books, now known as deuterocanonical books, that had not been selected at Jamnia. The Protestant Churches eventually decided to include only those books in the Hebrew Bible.

Bishop Irenaeus of Lyons argued for Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to be included in the New Testament, saying that four gospels were as natural as the four winds. The New Testament, as we now know it, was formally accepted by a council at Rome in 382.