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OK! Reformation history! So, I take it, you consider yourself a son of the Reformation? How was I to know? You have been so coy and mysterious about your denominational affiliation, I had no idea where your canon was from.

In fact, I still don't know, because you might be going by:

the original 1611 King James Bible, where the Apocrypha section includes, in addition to the deuterocanonical books, three books which were not included in the list of the canonical books by the Council of Trent:
- 1 Esdras (Vulgate 3 Esdras)
- 2 Esdras (Vulgate 4 Esdras)
- Prayer of Manasseh
the Westminster Bibles, which recognize only 66 of the 73 books
the 1599 and 1640 editions of the Geneva Bible (German), some of which were printed with the seven deuterocanonical books, and some without them;
The versions standardized among English-speaking Protestants following the 1825 decision by the British and Foreign Bible Society.
Martin Luther proposed removing these Antilegomena, the books of Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation from the canon. All of the modern-day Lutheran Bibles include these books, but none of the confessional statements issued by any Lutheran church includes an explicit list of canonical books.

So maybe you'd like to clear that up for me? Come on, don't be shy!

Who established *your* Canon? And when? Where? On what basis? And why?

OK! Reformation history! So, I take it, you consider yourself a son of the Reformation?

No, actually, I do not. I have no "denomination."

I suggested this for your own education, to broaden your view of history beyond what you've been taught.

Who established *your* Canon? And when? Where? On what basis? And why?

John 6:24-25

Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.

When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

John 6:25-40

²⁵When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”

²⁶Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. ²⁷Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

²⁸Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

²⁹Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

³⁰So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? ³¹Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’^[c]”

³²Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

³⁴“Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”

³⁵Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. ³⁶But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. ³⁷All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. ³⁸For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. ³⁹And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. ⁴⁰For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

Who established *your* Canon? And when? Where? On what basis? And why?

It's right there in the Book Rome assembled; so long ago.