Inspired Bible :66 Book (protestant), 73 Books (catholic), or More (Orthodox traditions)?
1) Direct Answer
The inspired canon is the 66 books—Genesis to Revelation. Nothing to add and nothing to take away.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says all Scripture is God-breathed and sufficient to thoroughly furnish the believer (2 Timothy 3:16–17). That speaks of a complete body of writings that fully equips.
- Jesus identified the Old Testament as “the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms” (Luke 24:44). He also marked its bounds “from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zacharias” (Luke 11:51), which covers the full Hebrew canon.
- The oracles of God were committed to the Jews (Romans 3:2). Jesus affirmed their Scriptures; He never placed other writings on equal footing.
- God then spoke in the Son and through those He sent (Hebrews 1:1–2; John 14:26; John 16:13). The New Testament came through apostles and their close associates, confirmed by God (Hebrews 2:3–4).
- We are told the faith was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 3). And the Word warns not to add to or take from what God has given (Deuteronomy 4:2; Proverbs 30:5–6; Revelation 22:18–19).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Jesus endorsed the recognized Scriptures of Israel; the apostles, led by the Holy Spirit, gave the New Testament. That forms a complete, Spirit-sealed witness.
- The extra books can be historical or moral in places, but they were not received by Jesus and the apostles as Scripture, nor do they carry the “It is written” authority in the New Testament.
- Since God warns against adding to His Word, we hold to the closed canon He vindicated: the 66 books.
Short reinforcement
You see, God keeps His Word pure. The Bible is complete—one Book, from Genesis to Revelation, perfectly in step, without the need of additions.
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Christianity versus Idolatry
61-1217 §82
...ng of Schmucker, S-c-h-m-u-c-k-e-r-s, Schmucker's The Glorious Reformation. Here's what it stated: That from the time that St. Augustine of Hippo passed this verdict to the Catholic church, it throwed the doors wide open for them to kill anything they wanted to then that denied that pagan church. And from the time of St. Augustine, about three hundred years after Christ, until 1850, the great massacre of Ireland, there was eighty-six million Protestants killed by the Catholic church. That's on the Roman martyrology...
The unfailing realities of the living God
60-0626 §69
...out that little character you got? What about that little snoopy idea? What about that rebuking anybody that baptizes in the Name of Jesus? When there's not no place in the Bible where anybody was ever baptized any other way. I challenge anybody to show me where any person, at any time outside of the Catholic church when they started three hundred years after the death of the last apostle, where anybody ever used the name Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in baptism. Come, show me the Scripture or the history. It's a Cat...
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit
58-0928M §17
...age have a denominational church. You tell me when it was. And now, there never was a denomination until 360 years after the death of the last disciple. That was the Roman Catholic church. And out of the Roman Catholic church... God called her, in the Bible, Revelation 17, a whore. That's a impure woman. And out of that she had daughters, and those daughters were harlots, impure like she was. That's what the Scripture says. And the Roman Catholic church gave birth to all Protestantism. And they've went right back...
Events made clear by prophecy
65-0801E §12
Now I want to speak concerning this Bible. And my subject tonight, or topic, is: Events Made Clear By Prophecy. Events Made Clear By Prophecy. Now, the Bible is a different book from all other sacred books. The Bible is a different book. It is a book of prophecy, foretelling future events. And it's also the Revelation of Jesus Christ. All the way from Genesis to Revelation, brings Him out in His fullness, what He was and is. And the whole complete book... Revelation 1:1-3, said the book is a book of the Revelation...
Revelation, Book of symbols
56-0617 §36
...paper where archbishops and everything write in, a great Riley Mackay, one of the greatest in the whole world, known. A great article in his paper this month, said, "If the Catholic or the Protestant church ever find God, it'll sit at the feet of Pentecost, and learn it." Amen. God is not known by theology! He's known by the new birth, being borned again. The Pentecostal church has accepted and believed, and don't care who thinks anything about it. They've accepted it. Now, the devil's put some counterfeits in ther...