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Oct 17, 2022 · The “extra” books in the Catholic Bible are commonly referred to in two ways: (1) Apocrypha and (2) Deuterocanonical books. Depending on a person’s point of view about the disputed books, each term is sometimes considered controversial in certain contexts.
5 days ago · Chronologically, Protestants took books out, not Catholics putting books in. Too often, people just assume the Catholic Church added books to conveniently fit its theology during the Reformation, but Catholics defended the already-instituted Christian canon of books from where its theology formed.
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- Scripture Alone? One of the defining pillars of Protestantism is Sola Scriptura (Latin for Scripture Alone). The biblical verse that is most cited in support of this doctrine is quoted,
- Luther’s Canon. What makes up the Protestant bible canon we know of today did not come into fruition until the 16th century. Luther’s Canon, a collection of scriptural texts by early reformer Martin Luther, became influential in the development of biblical theology for Protestant denominations even to this very day.
- Development of the Catholic Bible Canon. There were at least five instances in history when the biblical canon was formally identified. The first being the Synod of Rome in 382, the Council of Hippo in 393, the Council of Carthage in 397, a letter from Pope Innocent I addressed to Bishop Exsuperius of Toulouse in 405, and the Second Council of Carthage in 419.
- Deuterocanonical References in the New Testament? It is argued by Protestant theologians that the deuterocanonicals does not attest to its own authority.
Why Catholics Have Seven More Books. ISSUE: Catholic Bibles contain seven more Old Testament (46) books than Protestant Bibles (39). Catholics refer to. these seven books as the deuterocanon. 1 (second canon), while Protestants refer to them as apocrypha, a term used pejoratively to describe non-canonical books.
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Jul 6, 2023 · Catholics regularly accuse Protestants of removing seven books from the Bible… but Protestants like Todd Friel claim that no, Catholics were the ones who added seven books at the time of the Reformation.
Sep 1, 2000 · Did the Catholic Church add seven books—1 and 2 Maccabees, Sirach, Wisdom, Baruch, Tobit, and Judith—to the Old Testament? Here's how to answer this common claim.
It’s true. We do have a longer Bible, with seven more books, because we use a different translation. While our Protestant brothers and sisters’ Bible is based on the Hebrew translation, we use the Greek translation, known as the Septuagint, which includes more books.
