Have you compared you Bible with a Catholic Bible lately? The Catholic Bible has more books.
Ok, I am going to use a little bit of your logic here using this statement you made,
I am assuming you mean mainstream-Christianity as "Historical Christian Faith". If so exactly which Bible are you talking about? Your Bible? If you mean your Bible then it is only "Historical" up to the Protestant Reformation. Before that it would be the Catholics who use a different Bible. And before that there was not even a Bible up to several hundred years after Christ. There were only separate books accepted in different regions.
Your statement of "Bible Alone = Historical Christian Faith" is far to idealistically simplistic given the circumstances at hand. For with this statement, you would have to throw in a lot of qualifiers to simply have you version of Christianity accepted as "historical".
Have you read the Apocrypha books in the Roman Catholic Bible? They are not doctrinal in the sense that it would change the Christian Faith. Actually, many of the older Protestant Bibles included the Apocrypha books in the appendix. They are important books to study as a Protestant Christian too. I love Roman Catholic Bibles. Many Roman Catholics also use Protestant Bibles, especially in the United States. Protestant Christians, Roman Catholic Christians, and Eastern Orthodox Christians know that the body of Christ will have members from these three major communities divided within Christendom. Please consider the Webster Dictionary as a definiton of Christianity.
Notice that the Mormon Religion is not included in the Webster Dictionary as being under Christianity.
christianity - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
christianity
Main Entry: Chris·tian·i·ty
Pronunciation: \ˌkris-chē-ˈa-nə-tē, ˌkrish-, -ˈcha-nə-, ˌkris-tē-ˈa-\ Function:
noun Date: 14th century 1
: the religion derived from Jesus
Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies 2
: conformity to the
Christian religion 3
: the practice of Christianity
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latter-day saint - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
latter-day saint
One entry found.
Latter-day Saint
Main Entry: Latterday Saint Function:
noun Usage:
often capitalized D Date: 1834
: a member of any of several religious bodies tracing their origin to Joseph Smith in 1830 and accepting the Book of Mormon as divine revelation
: mormon
mormon - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Main Entry: Mor·mon
Pronunciation: \ˈmȯr-mən\ Function:
noun Date: 1830 1
: the ancient redactor and compiler of the Book of Mormon presented as divine revelation by Joseph Smith2
: latter-day saint;
especially : a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mor·mon·ism
\-mə-ˌni-zəm\
noun
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