Bible way to Heaven

[Nay_Sayer]

Did a very poor job of it too.

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The Bible was given to us by the Holy Spirit as discerned by the early bishops of the Catholic Church. There was no Bible for the first 350 years of Christianity. The first official list of Scriptures was done in 393 at the Council of Hippo, then again in Carthage in 397 and 419. The Church did not infallibly define these books until the Council of Trent, when it was called into question by the Reformers, in 1556.
Partial criteria for determining the canon is as follows:

• special relation to God, i.e., inspiration;
  
  
• apostolic origin;
  
  
• used in Church services, i.e., used by the community of believers guided by the Holy Spirit.
  

There were two different forms of the ancient Scriptures in use, the Septuagint and the Masoretic texts. The Septuagint has its influence from the Greek Jews in the Diaspora (outside Israel) whereas the Masoretic text was used by the Jews still in Jerusalem.
The Church has always used the  as its base for the Old Testament. The Septuagint has a few more books than the later established Masoretic texts. In fact, the Masoretic canon was set by the Jews after the Christians accepted the Septuagint version as their Scripture. This makes sense considering the non-messianic Jews were not too crazy about Jesus so why would they accept the same books as the Christians?

Source :http://www.aboutcatholics.com/beliefs/how-was-the-bible-written-and-created/

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The Book of Pasta was given to us by the Holy Spaghetti as discerned by the early apostles of the Pastafarian Church. There was no Book Of Pasta for the first 260 years of Pastafarianism.
 
The Church has always used the Spaghetti as its base for the Old Tortellini. The Spaghetti's 1 has a few more books than the later established Meatball texts.

RAmen.