One thing that hard core Bible believers stand firm on is that there are
only 66 books in the Holy Bible and there were no more and no less than
that. In the early days of the Church all Bible were hand written by monks that spent the entirety of their lives copying the bible. There were no printing presses at that time.

The Council of Nicea took place in AD 325 by order of the Roman
Emperor Caesar Flavius Constantine. Nicea was located in Asia Minor,
east of Constantinople. At the Council of Nicea, Emperor Constantine
presided over a group of church bishops and other leaders with the
purpose of defining the nature of God for all of Christianity and
eliminating confusion, controversy, and contention within the church.
The Council of Nicea overwhelmingly affirmed the deity and eternality
of Jesus Christ and defined the relationship between the Father and
the Son as "of one substance." It also affirmed the Trinity-the
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were listed as three co-equal and
co-eternal Persons.

During this Council of Nicea, the early Church decided on what was
considered canon and waht wasn't. The Dogma that much of the Catholic
church adopted origionated here. Most of all the books of the Bible were chosen, 66 in total.

There were other books mentioned in the records of the council of Nicea.
For instance there was one book called the Book of Judith, what happened to
it? There were other gospels as well... one being the Gospel of Peter, the Church considered it heretical and did not include it in the bible. Many
are unsure if the lost books are stored somewhere deep within the vaults of
the vatican or if they were burned (as it was beleived that Emporer
Constantine ordred) what happened to them? Many will not know... but antropologically speaking, there was more books to the bible than what we
have come to know as the Bible today.

The Catholic Bible has since added some of the books back in known as
the apocrypha and the pseudepigrapha (the hidden and the unattributed
books) which we will discuss at a later date.

... Buckwheat Scrapple: the other grey meat.
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