How do we know that the books excluded from the Bible are false?

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How can we be sure that the selected books for the Bible are true and the banned books from being included in Scripture are false? Is it known that the right books were chosen for the Bible, and the right books were rejected?

I saw on a program that in one of the books banned, Peter asked Jesus how could the souls in Hell suffer eternally since it’s that horrible? Jesus told him not to tell anyone else this, but that they will not remain there ETERNALLY, but at a certain time they will eventually be released (into Heaven, < I think). Also, another scripture said Jesus did a violent act, but I forget what it was. The curiousity is though, can we be sure these stories are false? How do we know they are not true?
 
You just asked the “64 Thousand Dollar Question”.

I read the Protoevangelium of James about each two months. It was not accepted. To answer your question I think you will have to find the “notes” of the Council that accepted the Canon of Scripture. I do not know how to find it.
 
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How can we be sure that the selected books for the Bible are true and the banned books from being included in Scripture are false?
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Because of the infallibility of the Magisterium of the Church.
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I saw on a program that in one of the books banned, Peter asked Jesus how could the souls in Hell suffer eternally since it’s that horrible? Jesus told him not to tell anyone else this…
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The book in question is The Apocalypse of St. Peter.

And I, personally, find it hard to believe that Jesus tells Peter to keep a secret, so Peter writes a book about it.
 
Because Jesus Christ established a Church on earth to proclaim His gospel, gave the leaders of this Church, whom he personally selected, and their successors, the authority to teach and preach that Gospel, and sent the Holy Spirit to protect them in doing so. The Church decides what writings and what oral traditions comprise divine revelation because that is the mechanism Jesus established to do so.
 
The question isn’t necessarily whether or not the books are true, but whether they are divinely inspired writings. Of course they would have to be true, given that.
 
What is the quote from St. Augustine?

My faith in the Bible stems from my faith in the Church?

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Jesus said HE would look after HIS CHURCH UNTIL THE END OF TIME ,there fore the HOLY SPIRIT guided the the early church to choose the 72 books. HAVE FAITH.
 
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Also, another scripture said Jesus did a violent act, but I forget what it was?
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He allegedly threw rocks at children who were taunting him. I recall reading this on some obscure site on the internet as I was surfing various religious threads.
 
We know that the books excluded from the Bible are not inspired scripture because we believe that the Church has the authority to determine what books are inspired and the Church has not found these books to be inspired.

Actually, this is a great question to direct to a sola scriptura-believing protestant. How do they know that the Bible contains all inspired books since there is no inspired table of contents and they don’t have an extra-biblical authority (i.e., the Catholic Church) to tell them what is inspired and what isn’t?
 
the quote from st. augustine is:

I would not believe in the Scriptures if it was not for the authority of the Catholic Church.

That’s from memory, though. You might want to check for yourself.
 
I think that books are not necessarily excluded from the Bible BECAUSE they are “false.”

Additionally, the Bible itself confesses that it acquires some of the Bible’s material – which IS inspired – from other books. In one case, it QUOTES FROM a book outside the Bible. Is THAT book inspired?

In the case of the Protevangelion of James, I was always bothered by the fact that it essentially portrays Jesus as “beaming down” out of Mary, instead of being born, and very, very, VERY irreverently portrays a midwife as touching Mary’s genital area, outrageous ideation in the Apostolic era as well as our own.
 
A good test for whether a book is inspired is the presence of standard Bible types, mentioned in Paragraphs 15 and 16 of Dei Verbum and in Paragraphs 128, 129 and 130 of the Catechism.
 
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And I, personally, find it hard to believe that Jesus tells Peter to keep a secret, so Peter writes a book about it.
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Excellent point. Plus Jesus would not deceive. He wouldn’t let everyone think Hell is eternal when it really isn’t. This sounds like Gnostic mumbo jumbo to me.
 
I actually saw (most of) the program he mentioned here… it was on the History channel, but I forget what it was called. “Banned from the Bible” or something like that… it mentioned books like Jubilees and Enoch too.
 
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