第二个关键问题是关于圣经的。
首先，我们必须清楚，当我们谈论原文圣经时，是指圣经的原始语文。即希伯来文的旧约和希腊文的新约。这里所指的并不是"原始手稿"(autographs)。
所有原稿手稿都丢失了。 （将来有没有可能再重新发现这些原稿手稿？）
我们没有原稿，旧约的没有，新约的也没有。基督教圣经的 66 本书中，连一本也没有。
事实上，我们今天拥有的圣经资料都是手抄本。
- 对于新约，最早的希腊抄本来自 4 世纪。
- 对于旧约来说，最完整的抄本是来自 10 世纪（当然还有公元前 2 世纪的《七十士译本》和《死海古卷》）。
至于《圣经》本身，《旧约(希伯来语经卷)》和《新约》的起源都不清楚，我们在很大程度上无法确定是谁写的，为什么写的，是怎么写的，什么时候写的 ，连人们为什么把它们编进圣经也没有记录。学者们对其中任何一个都没有确定的答案。
例如，摩西五经是谁写的？一般说是摩西，但摩西不可能是全卷的作者，因为其中记载了他自己死亡的记录（申 34:5-12）。
圣经正典
367 年的亚历山大主教亚他那修、及在奥古斯丁的影响下，393 年的希波会议和 397 年的第三次迦太基会议都列出了圣经的天主教圣经正典，包括旧约伪经和 新约27卷书。
然而，关于新约的争论还持续了一个世纪，特别是关于希伯来书和启示录。
最终，在 5 世纪左右达到共识，争议来才平息了。
天主教正典（有 73 本书）而希腊东正教（有 79 本书，但埃塞俄比亚东正教 Tewahdo 教会却有 81 本书）都有额外的书籍，源自七十士译本中包含了次经。
自宗教改革以来，新教徒（基督教）删除了伪经书，并重新回到希伯来圣经中作为圣经正典的清单，即39卷，加新约27卷。
这是圣经有 66 本书的来由。
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The Second Key Issue is Concerning the Bible.
One thing we must be clear that when we talk about the Bible in original languages, we are not dealing with the original autographs (i.e., the original manuscripts).
All the original autographs were lost. (Is there a possibility that any of these autographs could be rediscovered in the future?)
We do not have the originals,, neither the Old Testament nor the New Testament. Not a single of the 66 books in the Protestant Bible.
As a matter of fact, the resources we have today are hand-copied manuscripts, for NT, the earliest Greek copies are from the 4th century. For OT, the most complete manuscripts are from the 10th century (besides, there are the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls from the 2nd century BC),
As for the Bible, there is obscurity concerning the origin of both the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, we are not certain for a large part, who wrote them, why they were written, how they were written, when they were first written, when they became the collection of books as it is now... Scholors have no certain answers to any of them.
e.g., Who wrote the Pentetuah? Popular answer is Moses, but Moses could not have written everything in the Pentetuch, for in it, his own death was being recorded (Deut 34:5-12).
The Bible Canon
The Alexandrian bishop Athanasius in 367, the Council of Hippo in 393, and the Third Council of Carthage in 397 (both Councils were under the influence of Augustine) had a listing of the Catholic Canon of the Holy Scriptures, including the Apocrypha of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament.
However, debates had carried on for another century regarding the New Testament, particularly concerning Hebrews and the Revelation.
Eventually, the disputes subsided by general consensus around the 5th century.
The Catholic (has 73 books) and the Greek Orthodox (has 79 books, whereas the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church has 81) have additional books, derived from the Septuagint (the additional count is due to the inclusion of the Apocryphal books).
Since the Reformation, Protestants removed the Apocrypha books and reverted back to the list of books in the Hebrew Scripture as Bible canon.
This is the short history of how we have 66 books in the Bible.
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