Is the bible authoritive and truly inspired?

In your message 23, you said something that could be misleading. You said that the sect expelled by the Jews after AD 70 became the Catholics. There were various branches of the sect. The two most powerful became the Catholics and the Greek Orthodox. There were other ancient branches, usually other Orthodox branches. In AD 300, Politicians shanghaied the Sect that developed into the Catholic Church. In all these different branches, we have a general consensus about which books are inspired. One criterion was that it had to be written before AD 100 and by a generally recognized name, either an Apostle like Matthew, Peter, or John, someone writing at the dictation of an Apostle like Mark or possibly Luke, or an important Name like James the brother of Jesus or Paul. The other criterion was more practical. It had to be what worked.