what are the additional 6 books on the catholic bible about?

Question

and why dont non-catholic christians use them?

Answer 1

Dear infrared,

The 6 additional books found in the Catholic Bible did not make the canonization of Scripture. When the individual books that were selected to be a part of the 66 books of the Bible that we have now, there were standards that were applied to verify the authenticity of the book. The church forefathers who applied these standards under the direction of the Holy Spirit (through much prayer) and wisdom excluded those additional books found in the Catholic bible because of questions about their historic accuracy and the sources from where they came.

Consequently those books are not considered Scripture but are considered good "extra-biblical" and historical sources of reference but are not to be viewed in the same light as the rest of the Bible.

You can look up canonization of Scripture (to see the exact standards) -- it's much to complicated to explain in an email (and there are a lot of good books written) to explain how the Bible we have today came to be.

Hope that helps. Kindly,

Nickster

Answer 2

There are 7 Old Testament Books in the Catholic Bible that are not in the Protestant Bibles. At the time of Christ the Old Testament was in Hebrew and Greek as some Jews were Greek speaking.
There are no Hebrew texts extant on the 7 books and the Protestant reformers eventually rejected them as apocrypha which means doubtful. Not at first. However, I sincerely believe that the inclusion or exclusion of those 7 books will not cause a person to convert from Protestantism to Catholicism or from Catholicism to Protestantism.
St Matthews gospel has more references to Old Testatment prophecies than any of the other 3 gospels and I have read that they all come from the Greek Old Testament not the Hebrew.

Answer 3

There are actually seven books: Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, First and Second Machabees; also certain additions to Esther and Daniel.

1000-50 BC:
The Old Testament (hereafter "OT") books are written.

C. 200 BC:
Rabbis translate the OT from Hebrew to Greek, a translation called the "Septuagint" (abbreviation: "LXX"). The LXX ultimately includes 46 books.

AD 30-100:
Christians use the LXX as their scriptures. This upsets the Jews.

C. AD 100:
So Jewish rabbis meet at the Council of Jamniah and decide to include in their canon only 39 books, since only these can be found in Hebrew.

C. AD 400:
Jerome translates the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (called the "Vulgate"). He knows that the Jews have only 39 books, and he wants to limit the OT to these; the 7 he would leave out (Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach [or "Ecclesiasticus"], and Baruch--he calls "apocrypha," that is, "hidden books." But Pope Damasus wants all 46 traditionally-used books included in the OT, so the Vulgate has 46.

AD 1536:
Luther translates the Bible from Hebrew and Greek to German. He assumes that, since Jews wrote the Old Testament, theirs is the correct canon; he puts the extra 7 books in an appendix that he calls the "Apocrypha."

AD 1546:
The Catholic Council of Trent reaffirms the canonicity of all 46 books.

Answer 4

They are a bizarre little collection of fairy tales. even more bizarre than the main texts. They read more like something from The Tales of the 1001 Arabian Nights.

Answer 5

That was the star wars saga popularized by George Lucas.

Answer 6

The apocrapha! books like ruth.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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