LOL, where to start???
first, you never answered my question on how you know which books are Scripture and which are not? why don’t you have the Gospel of Peter in your Bible? are you following the tradition of men?
as for the Papists having a different Bible, you are correct but you have your history wrong. The books you call the “apocrypha” were included from the very first canon put together by the Church in the 4th century. The Greek Septuigant ( the Bible of the Apostles ) contained these books. when the Protestants came along in the 16th century, they REMOVED these books from the Bible. every Bible for the previous 12 centuries contained these books, even the original King James Bible had them. so i am happy to give you this history lesson.....you did make me laugh with your comment on they were added to gain one upmanship on the Protestants, LOL!! so to follow your logic, the Protestants removed the books to try and one up the Church.
Hey, one church (the RCC, that’s what your screen name is getting at I presume, typically Papist), you may be right on the Apocrapha, I don’t know, haven’t put that much effort into it. However, the test Protestants generally use is, if something, say like your Apocraphal books, aren’t specifically quoted by Jesus or any of the NT writers, they do not belong in the Bible.
As to your other thing, that’s an old horse that’s been beat to death here on FR. And answered quite well by others in other threads, in my opinion. To summarize, your presumption is flat out false, must be one of those “traditions” you’ve had drilled into your head, and hold authoritative.
There was no such thing as the Papacy when the NT canon came into being. The Papacy came along centuries later and appropriated it as something they gave to the world. Baloney.