Now the Bible can only be two things. Or it 's a statement of beliefs of the leaders of Christianity. Disregarding any supernatural element, it's based on consensus. Let's just say we're the only Christians in the world. We say we believe in these things, but we don't believe these other things so throw them out because they don't reflect what we believe.
Any group has the right to determine what it is they believe.
Pretty much the rest of the world looks at it this way. Now, the question of the lost books of the Bible comes up. Wait a minute, if God is supernaturally overseeing it, then God is supernaturally involved in seeing that His book gets written down and preserved. So we have God's supernatural protection if it has a supernatural quality to it. You may say that the supernatural element is bogus, but you can see that from this sense of the definition that it's not really possible to think that God could lose His own book.