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There is no authority, no person or group of people, authorized to decide who is a Christian and who is not. That's just not how such identity markers work.
I think most of the early christian churches agreed on which books and gospels are part the Bible and in which order. The interpretations and translations of them often differ though.
Some groups like the Mormons decided to add additional books nobody else thinks is "inspired by God".
In my personal view a better comparison than Scientology would be Islam. They also added stuff with the difference that they "degraded" Jesus to a prophet and made Mohammed the central figure.
Except we don't have the outright evidence of fraud for Islam like we do for LDS
That’s only because Islam is older than 200 years and from a time before the printing press. If Joseph Smith had lived, say, 500 years earlier, Mormonism would be shrouded in the same “unprovability” that most other religions enjoy.