Anyway, the Bible doesn't tell us which books should be in the Bible.
But as I have shown you it does. The resurrected Jesus specifically named what we should accept of pre-Christian books, 'the Torah, the Prophets and the Psalms' (indicating the Hagiographa). Luke 24.44. That was 39 books.
Apostolic letters were declared to be Scriptures (2 Peter 3.16)
The Gospels were declared to be Scriptures (1 Tim 5.18b with Matt 10.10).
So your extra books were excluded from the canon by JESUS.
There must have been some authority in how the books were authenticated, and arranged.
There was. It was Jesus. Their arrangement was not agreed by the early church. We have manuscripts which arranged them differently. They were authenticated immediately on being written as Apostolic works. Thus Clement and Ignatius quote from most of them WITHOUT FEELING A NEED TO VINDICATE DOING SO, and Irenaeus quoted from all but one. They were accepted from the beginning.
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The Church in 382 AD the Council of ROME, issued an official declaration of acceptance, a list for the current 73 books of the Bible, 46 OT and 27 NT.
Which church? There was not one church. There were large numbers of independent churches. Not all were represented at any of the councils you mention. Thus at no stage did the whole church pronounce on the canon. Indeed the fact that you have to mention three councils (each made up of different churches represented) demonstrates that there was not unity at that time. And why? because the Latin churches had a deficient canon. Thus Apostolic authorship of some had to be evidenced to those whose canon was deficient. In the East Athanasius had made clear what the Eastern canon was (our 66 books). The West, including Rome had to be shown that they were wrong. But that was because the West had gone away from the originally agreed books.
At the Hippo Council of 393 AD, this same list was reaffirmed and decreed as Sacred Scripture. 397 AD, the Council of Carthage reaffirmed the same list of 73 books which became the Holy Bible.
But before this Athanasius had already had already declared what should be in the canon. And he did not do it on his own. He did it on the authority of the Eastern churches. So the Western churches including Rome obtained their canon from the Eastern churches.
But as you admit both those councils got it wrong. They disagreed with Jesus. I know Whose word I will accept.
The Church (Catholic) under the guidance of the Holy Spirit arranged the Holy Bible as we have it today, 73 books.
As usual you try to deceive us. There was no recognised 'Catholic church'. There were numerous churches in the West, and numerous churches in the East. There was NO ONE in overall authority and a multiplicity of churches. And no one council represented all these churches. The Eastern churches had already had the canon of 66 books long before. READ THE FACTS.
It remained unchanged for 1100 yrs until Luther, a man with no authority, changed the list and began a mass delusion that there are only 66 books in the bible.
why do you always cite Luther? He was in no position to 'change the list'. You have such an obscurantist view of history fostered by your deceitful church. It was by general agreement of the churches that only the books which Jesus authenticated should be accepted in the canon.
Luther had no authority since the Church was one Church and he was one man.
There NEVER WAS ONE CHURCH. There were always numerous churches, all calling themselves catholic churches. You are relying on Roman Catholic fairy stories, not on history. No one accepted Luther's 'authority'. The position was agreed by all the churches.
The Church has always had the authority in these matters ever since the letters and gospels were collected and a list was established.
Which church? The Western churches, or the various Eastern churches. There never was genuinely 'one church'. That was the heresy that founded the Roman Catholic church in the 8th century when it seceded from the unity of the churches.
What about the second century lists?. They were not from Rome. Do they not count ? LOL