why the catholic church accept the intertestamental books and the protestants not?

Question

what is the main point for the question I given?

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 books removed were Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).

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.

Here is a Catholic Bible website: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

I think iamcatholic2 covered most of your question well, some additional points are these

1. in the Christian New Testament where persons quote Old Testament scripture such as St. Paul and Jesus after close examination of the wording of the text, language usage and so on bible scholars have determined that out of the 300-350 quotes a very large percentage can be attributed as coming from the Greek Septuagint version of the Old New Testament written by Jews some 250 years before Christ as explained by iamcatholic2.

Why is that important? Well it helps to understand that the same books you ask about are in the Septuagint bible version used by Jesus and his apostles. If one is a Christian should we accept these books also?

2. The Septuagint was widely used by the Jews in daispora this is the Jews outside of Palestine and also by those within Palestine contrary to what some attempt to deny. It was a very high quality text.

3. Some persons are led to believe since the Jewish people are the first people of the Old Covenant they must naturally have the most vaild Old Testament canon for Christians. This however is not so once again as explained by iamcatholic2 at the time of Jesus Christ there was no closed bible canon all books you ask about

(I'm assuming you mean Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14) were accepted by both Jews and early Christians as vaild.

It was only some 70 -80 years after the death of Jesus Christ that a jewish council jamnia decided to close the canon of their bible. By this point Christians were no longer under their authority as merely a sect of Judiasm but an entirely separate religion with its own authority to decide which books were holy. I've read these have been left out to directly combat and denounce Christian belief.

4. not entirely sure about this but I have heard also that the Dead Sea Scrolls (the oldest know original texts of any Judaic/Christian texts) also contain fragments of some of the books you ask of. These were found at Qumran an Israelite settlement of the Essenes. They were a sect of Judiasm who practiced celibacy so much for everyman must marry. They lived similar to that of modern day religious orders leading a very austere life. If so this claim would also substantiate the use of these books by other groups of Jews other than those who became first Christians.

5. ask me sometime why certain Protestant Reformers decided to reject the Christian canon of the Old Testament in favor of a non-Christian one sometime.

Answer 3

above, plus, the Catholic Church adds those books as historical information or background... the books do not hold the same 'authority' as the others. The Bible was formed on the basis of a debate/council about which books should be excluded and included.. the Catholics included the ones that almost made it,the protestants threw them out.

Answer 4

Probably for similar reasons the Catholic Church removed close to 24 books in 300 AD

They were not deemed worthy or did not seem to fit or gave to contrary a biasness or didn't read well.