[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you. That's just my point. You know the meaning of "byblos", in Greek, from the context. In some contexts you rightly assume it means Sacred Scripture, in another context it might just mean "book." I never insinuated that the mere word "book"(or "byblos") was never used in the Bible.

But I do know that the word "Bible" as we now use the term, Old Testament and New Testament, does not apear in the Bible. Neither does the Bible itself define what is IN the Bible. No book of the Bible proves, internally, that it is a Biblical book.

(And many books which are NOT in the Bible, make lofty claims to be Sacred Scripture, e.g. the Koran, the Book of Mormon, the Gospel of Thomas. These we rightly reject.)

The authority of the Bible itself -- its very identity as authentic Sacred Scripture, the list of its very books --- was established by the practice of the Church from the first centuries.

[Boogieman]

“The authority of the Bible itself — its very identity as authentic Sacred Scripture, the list of its very books -— was established by the practice of the Church from the first centuries.”

Well, it may have passed through the hands of the church, but it, an its authority, came from God, not from any men.