quranstudy,
if you read the wikipedia entry it tells you why they were rejected, it looks like most were either written too late or were not written by the people that claimed to write them... like the Gospel of James which wasnt written by James... or they were rejected for being written too late and for saying heretical things about Jesus like the infancy gospel... the bible is not like the koran, it is more like the hadith... its not like jesus came to us and handed us one big uniform book... instead he walked around and preached and performed miracles and based on the observations of those around him that became the bible (written of course under the guidance of the holy spirit)... so church leaders had to decide whether gospels were actually accurate and then they had to decide if they were inspired...
i hope that helps!
if you read the wikipedia entry it tells you why they were rejected, it looks like most were either written too late or were not written by the people that claimed to write them... like the Gospel of James which wasnt written by James... or they were rejected for being written too late and for saying heretical things about Jesus like the infancy gospel... the bible is not like the koran, it is more like the hadith... its not like jesus came to us and handed us one big uniform book... instead he walked around and preached and performed miracles and based on the observations of those around him that became the bible (written of course under the guidance of the holy spirit)... so church leaders had to decide whether gospels were actually accurate and then they had to decide if they were inspired...
i hope that helps!