I thought we were starting with the premise that the Bible is divinely inspired.
Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
You lot are missing a few books in that version, but Catholics also believe the Bible to be divinely inspired scripture, and not a regular text.
Well, I guess according to the doctrine of preservation, those weren't scripture. If you are referring to the Apocrypha, the translators of the KJV did not deem them to be divinely inspired, though they believed they were good reading and could be used for teaching. That is why original 1611 editions had the Apocrypha in them.
There were other books too that have been lost to history, such as the book of Jasher and the Book of the Wars of the Lord. Obviously, if those were lost, then they would not be considered Scripture, because they were not copied by the scribes.