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I feel like this question might have been asked before, but I can't find it. It's been referenced a few times. Can anybody help me out here?
Certain books called the apocrypha were not included because Protestants did not believe that these books had the same "weight" and inspiration as the other books of the Bible.
I feel like this question might have been asked before, but I can't find it. It's been referenced a few times. Can anybody help me out here?
During the Protestant Reformation, some reformers cut out books of the Bible that contradicted some of the reformers' beliefs.
In fact, some of the early Reformers wanted to cut out even more books. Martin Luther wanted to chop out the epistle of St. James, and he had strong reservations about the epistles of John.
During the Protestant Reformation, some reformers cut out books of the Bible that contradicted some of the reformers' beliefs.
In fact, some of the early Reformers wanted to cut out even more books. Martin Luther wanted to chop out the epistle of St. James, and he had strong reservations about the epistles of John.
200 BC: Rabbis translate the OT from Hebrew to Greek, a translation called the "Septuagint" (abbreviation: "LXX"). The LXX ultimately includes 46 books.
AD 30-100: Christians use the LXX as their scriptures.
AD 90: Jewish rabbis meet at the Council of Javneh and decide to include in their canon only 39 books, since only these can be found in Hebrew. This "officially" separates Jewish Scripture from Christian Scripture.
AD 400: Jerome translates the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (called the "Vulgate").
AD 1536: Luther translates the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into German. Initially, his version is exactly the same as the Catholic Bible. Later, he decides that, since Jews wrote the Old Testament, theirs is the correct canon; he puts the extra 7 books in an appendix that he calls the "Apocrypha." and comments that they are "useful". Luther also wanted to eliminate, or at least put in his Apocrypha several New Testament books - the books of Jude, Hebrews, James, and Revelations, but his fellow Protestant Reformers are appalled, and these are put back in by other Protestant reformers.
AD 1546: The Catholic Council of Trent, in response to the changes in the Bible by the Protestant Reformers, re-affirms the canonicity of all 46 books.
Whether people accept this or deny this, it doesn't change the fact that it is historically accurate.
If you have a Protestant Bible, then it is 7 books short of the Bible accepted by all Christians for over a thousand years.
Not true...the Catholic church added books to the OT cannon... I posted the books up there
^^^ The ECFs did not agree on the Apocrypha that is why the prots do not have them, they were considered extra books by many of the ECFs., being that they could not be agreed upon they were left out.
MBG
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