The Lost Books of the Bible

The Bible is not so much a cohesive single work as a collection of documents or "books" from a variety of sources. Many of the books of the Bible were not written at the same time, even when they come from the same Testament. The Bible is a holy Trapper Keeper full of collected religious texts.

You might be wondering what happens when some new guy gets it in his head to write a book for the Bible or, more likely, a previously forgotten text is rediscovered. When that sort of thing happens there is a holy editorial review board that swings into action. The composition of the board depends on what faith is considering a revision to their Bible, but it is most famously Catholic.

These guys get together with the text in question and they study it. They look into its origins and history, they analyze the message, and they see how it fits in with the rest of the stuff in the Bible. If they do not like it, then they throw it away and it is considered apocryphal. That is what usually happens. If they do like it, they make it a new book in the Bible and it is considered canon.

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