The Bible's Biggest Mystery: Who Decided What Made The Cut?

Who decided what books went into the Bible? Codex Sinaiticus, one of the oldest surviving Bibles, keeps going after Revelation with two more books: the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas. So why isn’t the Shepherd of Hermas in most Bibles today? We follow how the New Testament canon actually took shape, through the words of Irenaeus, the Muratorian fragment, Eusebius, Dionysius and Athanasius’s Festal Letter of 367. No single person or council, not even the Council of Nicaea, chose one Bible for every Christian. And being preserved beside the New Testament does not prove a book was later removed. Chapters 0:00 The Bible that keeps going 0:53 One council, one vote? 1:45 Hermas and the second chance 3:15 A good book or scripture? 4:29 Too late for public reading? 5:27 Eusebius: valued but disputed 6:14 Revelation was questioned too 6:55 Dionysius and Revelation 8:32 Athanasius's boundary 10:37 So who decided? 11:16 What the page can prove Sources and translations Codex Sinaiticus: contents https://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/co... The Shepherd of Hermas, Mandate 4 https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/020... Hermas, Vision 1: English reading page (J. B. Lightfoot) https://www.ccel.org/ccel/lightfoot/f... Irenaeus, Against Heresies IV.20.2 https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/010... Muratorian fragment, lines 71–80 https://www.earlychristianwritings.co... Eusebius, Church History III.3 and III.25 https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250... Dionysius, preserved in Eusebius VII.24–25 https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250... Athanasius, Festal Letter 39, sections 5–7 https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204/... The surviving canons of Nicaea https://www.earlychurchtexts.com/publ... More from Seek the Scroll Are Seraphim Actually SERPENTS?    • Are Seraphim Actually SERPENTS?   About the visuals This film uses AI-assisted historical illustrations and environmental animation. Historical scenes and manuscript-style pages are illustrations. English reading pages are modern editorial layouts, and the thumbnail is conceptual artwork. #Bible #ChurchHistory #CodexSinaiticus