Ultimately it would be Jehovah God who decided that.
But he used the Israelite people to establish the Hebrew Scripture canon (Old Testament); and then he used the earliest Christians to establish the Greek writings (New Testament).
The first part of The Bible's canon was already established by the 5th Century BC. The scribes, including Ezra, was involved in its compilation.
The first TRANSLATION occured around 285-246 BC, with the Hebrew scriptures being translated into the Greek language. This translation work, confirmed that the Hebrew canon was completed already; that's why they only translated the books we now have in the old testament.
With the death of the last apostle of Jesus (John who wrote Revelation) the final part of the Bibles canon was closed, as nothing else was added to it.
For the new testament canon Irenaeus of Lyon decided what order they would go in.
Roman Catholic AnswerYou are operating with a mistaken assumption. The Catholic Church wrote the Bible, the Catholic Church decided which books were canonical (included in the Bible), and the Catholic Church has conserved the Bible through the centuries. The only ones who changed any Scriptures in the Bible are the protestants, who, after fifteen centuries of a Bible preserved by the Catholic Church came along and threw books out of the Bible, and changed the meanings of books they would not throw out.
73 books in the Bible There are 67 books in the Protestant Bible.
There are 66 books of the bible.
It is easier to remember the books of the bible if you break them down into groups and learn the groups. Once you have learned the groups you can put them together to list every book of the Bible.
The books that make up the Bible were written by many different people. However in 393 at the synod of Hippo it was decided what books would be in the Bible. In 400 the first Latin Bible was translated by Jerome (and others).
There are no more books in the Bible. The Bible is complete with its 66 books which was decided by the church a few hundred years after it was founded by Jesus Christ.
It is often claimed that the Bible was edited by men who decided what books to include in the Bible. The editing was directed by guidance and God's holy spirit.
Because a group of holy men of the church decided about 1700 years ago that they were not inspired by the Holy Spirit as were the present 66 books of the Bible.
For the new testament canon Irenaeus of Lyon decided what order they would go in.
AnswerThe Bible does have all the books now recognised as Christian scripture, but not all the books that could have been recognised as scripture. Books such as the Didache, the Shepherd of Hermas and numerous gospels are not included in the New Testament. The Protestant Old Testament includes the books that Judaism decided to include in its Hebrew Bible, and the Catholic Bible contains some additional books from among those that the Jews could have included but did not do so.
Roman Catholic AnswerYou are operating with a mistaken assumption. The Catholic Church wrote the Bible, the Catholic Church decided which books were canonical (included in the Bible), and the Catholic Church has conserved the Bible through the centuries. The only ones who changed any Scriptures in the Bible are the protestants, who, after fifteen centuries of a Bible preserved by the Catholic Church came along and threw books out of the Bible, and changed the meanings of books they would not throw out.
73 books in the Bible There are 67 books in the Protestant Bible.
No. In Christian Bible there is 73 books - but Protestant Bible have 66 books.
The books of what has become the Bible have, of course, been around for many centuries. But the books that became the canonical Bible of the Roman Catholic Church, that is, the Bible of western European Christianity, were compiled - actually, more like weeded-out - at the Council of Nicea in 325 a.d. Constantine the Great gets the credit, but the work was mostly done by a number of scholars - the council. This was the Western Christian Bible up until the Reformation, when the Protestants decided to go with what was then Jewish canon for the Old Testament.
There are 66 books of the bible.
no there is 66 books of the bible