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.   
      
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