How were the books of the Bible selected and compiled, and how were the decisions made as to what would be distributed as the Word of God? Question and Answer

Even though we think of the Bible as being one book, it’s actually a collection of sixty-six books, and we realize that there was a historical process by which those particular books were gathered together and placed in one volume that we now know as the Bible. In fact, we call the Bible the canon of sacred Scripture. Canon is taken from the Greek word canon, which means “measuring rod.” That means it is the standard of truth by which all other truth is to be judged in the Christian life. There have been many different theories set forth over … View Resource