wait so some protestants believe that catholics actually added the Deutero-Canonical books into the bible?

Answer 1

The New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same.

The difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.

The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.

The early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.

The Christian Church did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint.

1500 years later, Protestants decided to change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon. The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I believe the timeline goes something like this: The books were added after the time of Ezra, which was later determined to be the cutoff point for Jewish revelation. These books were supposedly voted out by the Jews in about 100 CE. In about 370, when Jerome was producing the first decent Latin Bible, he discovered that no Hebrew versions survivied, so he stuck the deutro-canonicals in a section by themselves. But they were still in the Bible.

When Martin Luther translated the Bible into German, he rejected these books, using the Jewish ruling, because he didn't like some of the ideas in them, like praying for the dead. Since then, most Protestant Bibles do not have the Apocrypha and all Catholic Bibles do. So it's easy for some Protestants to think Catholics "added" the books, or at least "added them back in".

Answer 3

"Deutero-canon" means "second canon."

Unfortunately, many Protestants and Catholics do not know how their denominations came up with thier respective versions of the canon of Scripture, whuch is taken from two primary sources:

(1) The Hellenistic or Greek Canon is known as the Septuagint. This version, adopted by the Roman Catholic Church, contains 7 extra books (called the deuterocanonical books): Judith, Tobit, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Ecclesiasticus and the Wisdom of Solomon.

(2) The Palestinian or Jewish Canon adopted by the Greek Orthodox Church and all Protestant churches. The 39 books of this version are written in Hebrew or Aramaic. Jewish rabbis recognized all these books as authroitative by the 1st century A.D

So, the Roman Catholic Church DID NOT add the 7 deutero-canonical books. They have these books in their Bible because they adopted the Septuagint or Greek OT instead of the Hebrew or Palestinian OT.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I hope not as it is part of the story of Moses.and the TORAH.

Answer 5

Because they did