Truthspeaker
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There is no single text called 'the bible' There is the Niacean Library, which is a collection of jesish rehashings of Sumraian myths and various lies and forgeries collectively known as the 'New Testament'
I can't stand agreeing with you, but you did pose a good point. The christian bible as we know it is a very abridged version of several thousand writings, most of which come from Sumeria, many from the Egyptian mythology even, Imhotep's story follows Jesus' almost exactly only instead of resurrection and "son of god" he was actually promoted to a god but started as a mortal. Other examples exist, but the collection of works which make up the bible were not completely added, they didn't want to make everyone have to carry around the whole library.
The reason the Creed didn't include many other important books is not because they just wanted to reduce the size of the Bible, but because there were many challenging doctrines in other writings that put down their individual dogmas and creeds. They condemn any religious writing not in the Bible they cannonized as heretical. This is of course absurd. The other writings should have been respected the same as the Bible. Plus the Bible was not put together by Jesus or His authoritative apostles. It was put together by a bunch of individual self proclaimed priests with no authority, however well meaning they may have been.