The selection of the canon of The Bible (which books are included, which suppressed) together with their ordering, is a complex and fascinating history. The present form of the Bible was finally crystalised by Saint Jerome when he translated / collated what would become the definitive Latin text of the Bible (the Vulgate) in consultation with pope Damasus I from around 382 until the end of Jerome's life in 420.
There was general agreement about which texts were acceptable as part of the Christian Bible before Jerome (such works as the Acts of Peter and Thecla were already considered highly dubious) but it was Jerome's effort to produce a single authoritative text which finally established the canon as we know it today (together with fixing the order of the books). To simplify slightly (a full answer would need a book) the protocanonical books (the Bible) were what Jerome and Damasus agreed on; the deuterocanonical books (the Apocrypha) were books Jerome wanted to exclude but under persuasion agreed to accept as an add-on.
Damasus I as pope had the authority to both decide the composition and the sequence of the Bible, and also to delegate the translation into a common language of the source texts (in Hebrew, Greek, and in a few cases Aramaic) to Jerome. No pope since Damasus I has seen fit to revise the Bible (unless you count Pius XII's very limited instruction Divino Afflante Spiritu), so all subsequent translations derive directly (actual borrowed terminology or interpretation) or indirectly (choice of source texts and sequence) from Jerome.
the bible is organized in three dispensations.
By A.D. 500 the first Christian Bible was completed.
No. The word purgatory is not in the Bible.
Within the Christian Bible, there are a total of 1189 chapters in 66 books.
Christian appears twice in the King James Bible.
the bible is organized in three dispensations.
There are 66 books in the Christian Bible.
There are 925 verses in the Christian bible.
You can get your own Bible before you are a Christian.
There are 66 books in the Christian Bible.
Bible Christian Church was created in 1815.
By A.D. 500 the first Christian Bible was completed.
A bible thumper is a Christian fundamentalist or over-zealous evangelical Christian.
NO. There is no 'Christian flag' mentioned in the Authorized translations of the Bible.
Holman Christian Standard Bible was created in 2004.
Florida Bible Christian School was created in 1976.
Central Christian College of the Bible was created in 1957.