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Apr 18, 2022 · The canon of the Protestant Bible totals 66 books—39 Old Testament (OT) and 27 New Testament (NT); the Catholic Bible numbers 73 books (46 OT, 27 NT), and Greek and Russian Orthodox, 79 (52 OT, 27 NT) (Ethiopian Orthodox, 81—54 OT, 27 NT).
May 9, 2020 · A: The seven books are 1 and 2 Maccabees, Tobit, Judith, Sirach, Wisdom and Baruch. In addition, the Books of Daniel and Esther are slightly longer in Bibles used by members of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Why? Up until the 16th century, most Christians accepted the older Alexandrian canon (list of inspired books).
- The Old Testament canon. The accepted list of books in the Bible is called the "canon." The canon of the Old Testament books of the Catholic Bible is based on history.
- The New Testament canon. Defining the canon of the New Testament books of the Catholic Bible was a somewhat different story. The question now wasn't what ancient books of Jewish Scripture should be in the canon.
- Defining the canon. It took a few hundred years to complete this process of officially defining the Christian canon of both the Old and Testament. During that time, the bishops discussed and debated the matter with each other to determine whether the deuterocanonical texts accurately reflected the teachings of Christ, and whether they contained the inspired Word of God.
- What books of the Catholic Bible. Do Protestants reject? Protestants reject the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament as being not divinely inspired.
Jul 6, 2023 · So there’s seven books that are going to be present on this list that are in Catholic Bibles today, that aren’t in Protestant Bibles today. Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, the book they call Ecclesiasticus, which is also called Sirach Ecclesiasticus, it means church book. Baruch, and then First and Second Maccabees.
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The deuterocanonical books are not found in the Hebrew Bible. They were added by the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent after Luther rejected it. The background to this theory goes like this: Jesus and the Apostles, being Jews, used the same Bible Jews use today. However, after they passed from the scene, muddled hierarchs started adding books...
Christ and the Apostles frequently quoted Old Testament Scripture as their authority, but they never quoted from the deuterocanonical books, nor did they even mention them. Clearly, if these books were part of Scripture, the Lord would have cited them. This myth rests on two fallacies. The first is the "Quotation Equals Canonicity" myth. It assumes...
The deuterocanonical books contain historical, geographical, and moral errors, so they can't be inspired Scripture. This myth might be raised when it becomes clear that the allegation that the deuterocanonical books were "added" by the Catholic Church is fallacious. This myth is built on another attempt to distinguish between the deuterocanonical b...
The deuterocanonical books themselves deny that they are inspired Scripture. Correction: Two of the deuterocanonical books seem to disclaim inspiration, and even that is a dicey proposition. The two in question are Sirach and 2 Maccabees. Sirach opens with a brief preface by the author's grandson saying, in part, that he is translating grandpa's bo...
The early Church Fathers, such as St. Athanasius and St. Jerome (who translated the official Bible of the Catholic Church), rejected the deuterocanonical books as Scripture, and the Catholic Church added these books to the canon at the Council of Trent. First, no Church Father is infallible. That charism is reserved uniquely to the pope, in an extr...
Discussion: The most noticeable differences occur in the number of books included and the order in which they have been arranged. Both the Jewish Bible and the Hebrew canon in a Protestant Bible (aka Old Testament) contain 39 books, whereas a Catholic Bible contains 46 books in the Old Testament.
Protestant Bibles have only 39 books in the Old Testament, however, while Catholic Bibles have 46. The seven books included in Catholic Bibles are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach, and Baruch. Catholic Bibles also include sections in the Books of Esther and Daniel which are not found in Protestant Bibles. These books are called ...
