Bible writers never knew about a Bible one day existing, and eventually being canonised and put into print by the Puritans, so they could never say what importance to place on such a book. When at last people knew a Bible had become a real concept, by then there was nobody writing scriptures for inclusion in it by them of any relevant guidance. So they could not include anything in the Bible of any Bible authority about the Bible. So there can never be any biblical teaching about the Bible and how much importance to give it in comparison to other writings such as those comprising the other scrolls among the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the Book of Enoch. Nothing in the Bible exists to tell us whether, say, to add the Book of Enoch to the Bible. Nothing in the Bible exists to tell us whether, say, to add the Apocrypha books to the Bible. Nothing in the Bible exists to tell us whether, say, to regard some books as Apocrypha. Nothing in the Bible exists to tell us whether it is better to be rooted and grounded in love, or whether people should be rooted and grounded in the Bible. It simply cannot say. The Bible does not mention the Bible nor can it do so, so it has nothing to say about the Bible which it did not know. When it was discovered centuries ago that there were churches in previously inaccessible parts of the world whose Bibles had extra books in them, there was no biblical teaching about whether to expand the West’s Puritan or Catholic Bibles to include those extra books. When the Council of Trent decided to add extra books to the Catholic Bible, there was no biblical teaching about whether to expand the Puritan’s Bible to include those extra books. It was all left to the Puritans to decide.
