for example, Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Maccabees... I've never heard of these before yet they are apparently included in all orthodox and Catholic Bibles. They've never been in any of my Bibles and my pastor has never mentioned them (I'm methodist).
2006-11-29 05:29:45 · 7 answers · asked by Alice 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Catholics do have "extra" books in their bible. We protestants call these books the apocrypha (which literally means "extra books")
They were not included in our Canon because we do not believe them to be the inspired Word of God.
2006-11-29 05:33:09 · answer #1 · answered by I'll Try 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were removed during the first Council of Nicea by rabbis commissioned under Constantine to decide on the legitimacy of certain gospels. That was when the early Church was beginning to schism. The reason for their removal is thought to be that the book of Maccabees and others painted a friendlier picture of the Roman colonizer than the Rabbis thought should be presented. This collection of books also known as the Apocrypha was dealt another blow with the Protestant Reformation and the second Great Schism as well as the introduction of the official KJV in the Jacobean Era. These books are historicial records and proverbs for the most part and were kept by the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in an effort to maintain authenticity.
2006-11-29 05:51:41 · answer #2 · answered by Stacye S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The "extra" books you mentioned are part of the Deuterocannonaicals, commonly called the Apocrypha. The reason you haven't heard of them before, is because you are Protestant.
Waaaaaaaaay back, when Martin Luther started stirring things up, and trying to reform the Church, he started looking at the Bible (as he knew it). Back then it was the Catholic version, the Latin Vulgate, containing all of the "extra" books. For various reasons, he didn't think that these "deuterocannonaicals" belonged alongside the rest of scripture. He also found fault with a few books in the New Testament, most notably with the book of James. If Martin Luther's theology didn't jive with something found in the Bible, that book was removed!
Shocking, huh? Get yourself a Catholic Bible sometime, and find out what you are missing. The Epistle of Barnabas, for example, is really amazing.
Read and enjoy. Peace.
2006-11-29 05:36:33 · answer #3 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the council at Nicene did not "authorize" them to be part of the Bible we know today. I am Christian-non denominational and as far as I know, Catholics are the only ones who use them.
2006-11-29 05:34:10 · answer #4 · answered by sixcannonballs 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because the cannon " the insipired word of god"
was choosen from amoung hundred of books and storys by kings "say james"
other christain based relkigions may not agree and chooe other books r add books at there whim //
whacky kids
2006-11-29 05:38:59 · answer #5 · answered by illogicalbeats 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because your methodist. That is not your study.
2006-11-29 05:31:44 · answer #6 · answered by Christy S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cuz "christians" never have been able to get their story straight.
2006-11-29 05:43:45 · answer #7 · answered by Jer 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋