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What reason could you possibly have for thinking that any scripture needs to come after the Bible, that the Bible doesnt complete everything?

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What reason could you possibly have for thinking that any scripture needs to come after the Bible, that the Bible doesnt complete everything?

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– Answer: The Bible is a compilation of scriptures, most of which are by authors who cannot be positively identified. It is not a holy text but a volume of holy texts, arbitrarily put together by committees who decided what scriptures would go in and what scriptures would not. In other words, the contents of the Bible ended up in there because of the decisions of fallible human beings–not even prophets or popes or apostles, but mere church fathers. It is also common knowledge in secular biblical scholarship that, as the Koran announced in the seventh century, long before modern scholarship existed, the Bible has been corrupted by copyists and editors. The textual variants you see in notes at the bottom of almost each page in any Bible you pick up are proof of this–some ancient authorities add, some ancient authorities delete, some ancient authorities read. These variants are proof positive that people added, subtracted from and changed the text of pretty much every book in the Bible,

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