OK, Christians! I have my KJV!

[Jehanne]

I don't know who these Biblical scholars are; do you believe that most Biblical scholars are inerrantists, such as yourself?  For instance, why shouldn't I accept the Gospel of Peter?  Unlike Matthew, Mark, Luke and Gospel, it claims, explicitly, to have been written by the Apostle Peter.  Or, for that matter, the Gospel of Thomas?

The biblical scholars I'm speaking of are those who originally put the Bible together, going through every available manuscript and finding those that were in agreement with each other and tossing the ones that were not or were obviously contradicting the teachings of Christ. The Jews put together most of the OT, that is what Jesus and His disciples taught from. The men who wrote the books of the NT had no idea those books and letters would ever end up in a book like the Bible and I would say some would have been surprised their writings lasted long enough to be available for consideration. Ultimately God lead these men(biblical scholars) to the decisions of which books would make up the Bible and it has been sufficient for many a years before some of these other letters and books were found. I personally know little of the other gospels that have come to light, I trust in the array of men and women who determine whether the other writings should become part of the bible or used as teaching aids. I have enough to do with trying to understand our present day Bible, it is an endless wealth of information for those who seek God's truth. Yes I do believe most biblical scholars are inerrantists, at least those who are concerned with the truth from God.

GC

Things didn't work that way.  It was not until the 4th century that a Roman church council decided, by fiat, which books were "inspired" and which were not, and nearly all modern scholars agree that they got their facts wrong.  For instance, a criterion that Council used was "Apostolic authority" (an author had to have been a witness to Jesus' so-called "resurrection"), but scholars today know that Paul did not write the Pastoral epistles (Timothy, Titus, etc.), nor was the "John" of the Gospel the same individual as the John of the Revelation, etc.  And, so, it was not scholars but 4th century churchmen who put the modern Bible together.