Why were books taken out of the Bible during the Protestant Reformation?

Answer 1

That was Martin Luther's deal. He found some things in several books that just didn't jive with all of his ideas of theology, especially the idea that those who CLAIM to be born again should ACT like it.

Instead of changing his theology, he changed the Bible.

(Mama gives ML THE LOOK...and sends him to the corner for being bad...)

Answer 2

If you want to read those books, you can go to this webite
Latin Vulgate Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible

http://www.drbo.org/

I use to read The King James until I realized these books were removed. Also, Daniel chapter 13 & 14 are also in the Douray Rheims Bible.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 3

The Books of the Apochrypha were deleted from cannon for a variety of reasons. Authorship was sometimes questionable, or historical teachings were mixed with mythology. Generally, though, books were omitted because major portions were not in alignment with other books that had an more authentic and traceable pedigree.

The Apochrypha are not found in the King James, and later versions. They are still used in the Catholic Bible. A few books are in both, but carry different titles.

Answer 4

Your so wrong the Catholics added books to the bible. Christians put in the bible books that they were sure were inspired by God. Why do you think it called the Holy Bible, not the Protestant Bible and then there is Catholic Bible which has other books.

Answer 5

For the same reason Constatine took out books during the formation of the Catholic church. They didn't like them.

Answer 6

Wasn't that when the Catholics added their apocryphal books to the Old Testament?

Answer 7

At that time the catholic church was extremly corrupted (as it is today)

As with any sub branch of Christianity, they took the original and manipulated it into a belief system that they were comfortable with.

Answer 8

Who says? That is untrue. (The burden of proof is on you when you make such statements.)