“Indeed it is, though the inspired books are established as Scripture not due to ecclesiastical decree, but to their manifest enduring purity and power down thru history”
The Biblical Canon you hold dear was established by the authority of the Catholic Church. Most Protestant scholars even concede this. There are some parts that were taken out in the 1500’s by some who split from the Church in the Reformation period. Anything else is a rationalization - such as denial that Reformers used this Churches Canon until it didn’t meet there needs. They THEY independently changed the nature of the Bible with no authority.
“The Biblical Canon you hold dear was established by the authority of the Catholic Church.”
Rome can decree what it will, but if the books were not manifest as inspired by their power and purity and supplementary conformity to each other then they would be obscure today, which is what the 7 extra books, relatively are. And which are excluded for good reasons, fallible Reformers initial acceptance notwithstanding: http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/read/the_apocrypha_inspired_of_god and http://www.christiantruth.com/Apocryphapart1.html *