Why were 7 books removed from the Roman Catholic bible?

Question

does it go against these verses?

Proverbs...Chapter 30 vs. 5 &6 Revelation Chapter 22 vs18 and 19.

sorry yes , the protestants did it....

Answer 1

The New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same with 27 Books.

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 of 46 books, 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. 46 + 27 = 73 Books total.

1500 years later, Protestants decided to keep the Catholic New Testament but 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

Protestants removed the 7 books. The Catholic bible has been the same bible it has been since the begining of Christianity. Martin Luther took out books he didn't like because he disagree with it. Many Protestants stil read these omitted books but called them "Apocryphals" meaning hidden. I think it goes against God to omit books that he inspired men to write. Why don't you just keep all the books in the bible? I trust the Catholic bible more than any other bible.

Answer 3

Those books, called the Apocrypha, were never accepted as inspired by the Palestinian Jews, even though they were by Hellenistic Jews. The Protestant Old Testament follows the canon of the Palestinian Jews and the Roman Catholic OT follows that of the Hellenistic Jews. Interestingly, the KJV originally included the Apocrypha.
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Answer 4

Actually, Catholic Bibles contain seven additional books. Catholics refer to these books as Deuterocanonical. Most non-Catholics refer to them as Apocrypha. These seven books were not included in the original Hebrew OT.

While Christians (other than Catholics and Orthodox) do not consider these books to be Scripture, some denominations consider them at least worthy to be read. In fact, there are readings from these books in some Lutheran services.

For further information, you may want to check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books

Answer 5

Probably because the Lutherans and Anglicans didn't like what they said; so protestant Bibles don't include these books.
The Catholic Bible still has these books. Anyone can read them if they want to.

Answer 6

I don't know why the books were removed, but if they were, whoever did will suffer those consequences described in the Word, it clearly goes against those verses esp. Rev.

Answer 7

sweetie, you have it backwards. The RC bible has more books then the Protestant bible. I should know, I have one. When the Protestants broke away from the RC branch, they removed some books, but the RC never did.

Answer 8

Because they decided that those books kind of went against what the early church was trying to create.

In truth, it was more than just 7 books. There were all kinds of letters, stories, and books that went against what the church officially taught. Some had Jesus speaking of a mother Goddess, some had Jesus being in a close relationship with Mary Magdalene (the favorite of his disciples), and so on.

Answer 9

Fireball is wrong. We didn't 'add' anything - the 7 books that Martin Luther removed were because he decided that they were not inspired. In actuality, he didn't like what they said, so he ditched them.

Answer 10

You should ask a Priest.

It is my understand that Protestants had removed the books though.

Try:
www.catholic.com