Has any books been banned from the Bible?

Answer 1

I don't know if "banned" is quite the right word. The Bibles of different branches of Christianity have different contents. Apparently there is one book unique to the Ethiopian Bible:
http://www.usenet.com/newsgroups/misc.education.home-school.christian/msg06201.html

This page has many links that discuss "canonizations"--which books were included and which were excluded by different groups:
http://gbgm-umc.org/UMW/BIBLE/contents.html

Early Christianity had quite a few variants, and when power was centralized some sects were suppressed as heretical:
http://gbgm-umc.org/UMW/Bible/heresies.stm
For example, the figure of Judas depicted in the Gnostic Gospel of Judas is quite different from the one in the New Testament:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas

"Banned from the Bible" is a documentary that aired on the History Channel a couple of years ago:
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=73144
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_from_the_Bible
I don't know how accurate it is.

Answer 2

A friend of mine told me that there is a certain version of the bible, I just wish I could remember what it was called. I think there are only 2 copies in the world. I think that it was banned from the people, and it talks about the coming of one last prophet after Jesus (pbuh), named Ahmed (which also means Muhammad). Sorry I'm not able to be more specific...that's all I know about it. My friend's university allowed the students to borrow any book at their expense, so he chose that one. He had it for about a week or so.

Answer 3

I don't know about banned, but many accounts were omitted. If all the books were in there, then the bible would be huge.

Some were removed during different reprints through history.

And Karen, God didn't put the bible together, man did.

Answer 4

yes when king james had the king james version bible printed it included 1 and 2 macabees judith phillip and about 10 to 15 other books and they were printed and then about 5 years after the first publication they were removed ordered by king james why i do not know you can google the books i have listed and read them on the internet all this occured in the 1500's maybe whenever king james ruled
i use a new king james version

Answer 5

Yes. Elaine Pagels put together a stack back in the 70s called The Gnostic Gospels which is what kicked off the whole string of thought that leads up to trashy bestsellers like the recent one on the Catholic Church,forget the name.

Answer 6

Yeah Luther removed 7 books. Protestant bibles only have 66 books. My bible has 73

Answer 7

Different sects have different Bibles. There is a whole group of writings called The Apocrypha that some Christians don't include in their Bibles.

Answer 8

Yes, the reason being most of the time is that the identity of the author is not known. Most of these books fall under the classification of biblical apocrypha.

For starters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha

Answer 9

Yes...The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books:
Tobit
Judith
Esther
Wisdom
Sirach
Baruch
Letter of Jeremiah
Prayer of Azariah
Susanna
Bel and the Dragon
1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Maccabees
1 & 2 Esdras
There are more but that's all I can remember at the moment.

Answer 10

The Jewish Talmud was on the Roman Catholic Church's forbidden list until the list was recently abolished. There are many Christians who've never even heard of it.
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