[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you for that explanation, which is of interest to me because I appreciate getting a better understanding of the way people are thinking.

I have counter-points to make against these arguments, but not the time to do so tonight (it's almost my bedtime, and I'm early-out tomorrow.) However let me just make this one observation:

Nobody has yet answered my actual question, which was:

Who has the authority to take books out of the Bible? (Or another way to put it is: Who has the authority to determine which books are Scripture and which are not?)

And in particular --- I'd like to know who (name or names) claimed the authority to take seven books out of the King James Bible in 1640?

The salient point is that Protestant Bibles all ACCEPTED these seven books in Protestant Bibles published in 1537, 1539, 1560, 1568, 1611, by a number of Protestant reformers, translators, theologians, etc. and then pulled those books in 1640.

Who had that authority? Who made that decision? I'm looking for their names, and how they saw their authority to do this.

Thanks for giving me a chance to clarify. G'Night now!

[ilovesarah2012]

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/bibleorigin.html

I haven’t read all of this yet but it seems very thorough. I, too, will be going to bed soon. Maybe we can both read through it tomorrow and discuss it. Very interesting.