Who Decided What Books Belong in the Bible? (Each Tradition’s Canon Explained)

They Didn’t Take Books Out—They Never Had Them.
📚 Who Decided What Books Belong in the Bible? (Each Tradition’s Canon Explained)
Most Christians assume the Bible is a closed book—66 books, sealed and settled. But what if that number wasn’t universal… and never was?
In this eye-opening video, we trace how different Christian traditions—Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Ethiopian—each preserved a different set of sacred texts. Not because they added or removed books… but because they started with different shelves.

You’ll discover:
Why the early church read books you’ve likely never heard preached
What happened in 1826 that changed the Protestant Bible forever
Why no two Christian Bibles in history have ever been the same
How the Apocrypha, Enoch, Jubilees, and 1 Esdras were treated across traditions
And why understanding this doesn’t weaken your faith—it deepens it
If you've ever asked, "Why don’t we read that book?" or "Who made these decisions?" — this is your video.

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Chapters:
0:00 – The Bible Isn’t One Book
0:16 – One Faith, Five Bibles
1:14 – Before the Bible Existed
2:42 – The Septuagint: A Greek Game-Changer
4:27 – Jesus Quoted the Septuagint
5:56 – Early Christians Read More Books
6:20 – Crisis at 70 AD: Rebuilding Judaism
8:12 – The Hebrew Bible Was Finalized After Jesus
9:40 – The New Testament Canon Forms
10:58 – Luther’s Reformation and the 66 Books
12:55 – The Apocrypha Was Removed, Not Rejected
13:53 – The East Never Removed Them
14:40 – Ethiopia’s Books Were Never Lost
15:43 – Streaming Services and Sacred Libraries
17:00 – Who Really Removed Books?
17:40 – Five Traditions, Five Canons
18:30 – Not One Bible… But One Conversation
18:57 – Rediscover What Was Lost in the Garden
19:31 – What to Read Next: God's Garden & More