Is it an absolute fact that there are 7 missing books of The Bible. Where are they?

Question

I want to read them.

Answer 1

There are no missing books. That is an absolute fact.

Answer 2

Catholic Bible has 7 Old Testament books that Protestant Bibles do not have.

At the time of Christ there were Greek and Hebrew speaking Jews and the Old Testament texts were in both languages. The Jewish scribes omitted the 7 books since there were no Hebrew manuscripts.

In the 4th century, St. Jerome and scholars put them in the Bible. There was some disagreement but I imagine their final decision was that all the quotations in St. Matthews gospel of old testament prophecies came from the Greek not the Hebrew. St. Matthws gospel contains more references to Old Testament prophecies than any of the 4 gospels.

At the time of the Protestant Reformation, at first the Protestant scholars accepted the 7 books but later rejected them as apocryphal (meaning doubtful. The Catholic Church reaffirmed the 7 books were valid at the Council of Trent.

Now, my humble opinion, I believe Catholics and Protestants both can make too big of an issue of the inclusion or exclusion of those 7 books. I became a Catholic reading the KJV and I know of others who did so. At the same time, I believe if Protestants tomorrow decided those 7 books were canonical and Protestants started reading them it would not cause mass conversions to Catholicism. The basic difference in belief is not the version a person reads but their understanding and interpretation of it. There is a verse about it being wholesome to pray for the dead in Maccabees. However, I can't believe that there are very many Protestants that don't realized that Jews say Kadish for their dead.

The Orthodox actually have some other books.

A lot of people go on hearsay, some think Catholics have in their Bible, new testament writings that were consider apocrypha by St. Jerome and scholars. Actually, there is no difference between the Catholic and Protestant canon re the New Testament.

Now, Catholic Bibles prior to Vatican 2 had some different titles to books. For instance they had Kings I, II, III,IV and the KJV had Samuel I & II and Kings I and II. Kings 1 in the Catholic Bible was the same as Samuel I in the KJV, Kings II in the Catholic Bible was the same as Samuel II in the KJV. Kings III in the Catholic Bible was the same as Kings 1 inthe KJV, and Kings IV in the Catholic bible was the same as Kings II in the KJV.

Answer 3

There is more missing than you think. In the 5th century part of our Bible was burned up. Then we may have lost valuable information thru the translation process. Then there may be scrolls as yet not located (in fact, one man discovered additional scrolls in the 50's called "The Dead Sea Scrolls"! You could try the seven books on the web but one I found that was not "canonized"; it was the book that Mary Magdalene wrote. It is available on the web. Now, the Catholics have the Aprocrypha, which is not included in our regualar Bibles. I am not sure if there are seven but this could be what you are referring to. I'd just do a little research. Okay, I just looked it up. The missing seven is what the Catholics added to their Bible, which were not canonized by the Protestants. But there may be more. What Mary Magdalene had to say was never included. We just don't know about it. We must use faith and discernment to learn the truth. I feel I have a good handle on the truth but I used to be so thirsty for answers, just like you. Go for it.

Answer 4

Check the link below if you want to read them.

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There is much talk these days about lost books of the Bible. From cults to the New Age, people make all sorts of claims about how the Bible is missing books, books that help justify what they hope to believe. Sometimes people claim that the Bible was edited to take out reincarnation, or the teaching of higher planes of existence, or different gods, or ancestor worship, or "at-one-ment" with nature.

The "lost books" were never lost. They were known by the Jews in Old Testament times and the Christians of the New Testament times and were never considered scripture. They weren't lost nor were they removed. They were never in the Bible in the first place.

The additional books were not included in the Bible for several reasons. They lacked apostolic or prophetic authorship, they did not claim to be the Word of God; they contain unbiblical concepts such as prayer for the dead in 2 Macc. 12:45-46; or have some serious historical inaccuracies.....

Answer 5

The Protestant Bible is missing 7 books, they were taken out because the some 19th century Protestants thought they meshed too closely with the Catholic Churches teachings. (Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus, and Baruch). You can find these in the Catholic Bible. Said books are known as the Septuagint or the apocrypha. Actually Protestant Churches used these until 1820 when I guess they thought it would be better without them.

If you are referring to the many gnostic gospels and books that did not make it into the Bible, some of these can be viewed if you are a scholar however many have not been discovered yet.

Answer 6

The Catholics didn't 'add' seven books - they were there for hundreds of years before Luther removed them because he didn't like what they said.

Luther cared more about his word than God's. For hundreds of years the Bible was accepted, then he decided to alter it to serve his needs.

Why did Luther reject 7 books from the Bible?

Because they did not suit his new doctrines. He had arrived at the principle of private judgment - of picking and choosing religious doctrines; and whenever any book, such as the book of Machabees, taught a doctrine contrary to his taste he rejected it overboard and overboard that book went because it says: 2 Mach. xii 46, "it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from sins." He not only cast out certain books, but he mutilated some that were left. For example, not pleased with St. Paul's doctrine, "we are justified by faith," Luther added the word "ALONE" to make the sentence read: "We are justified by faith alone." His explanation of this insertion is found in his own words, "I know very well that the word 'alone' is not in the Latin and Greek texts; but Dr. Martin Luther will have it so, and I order it to be so, and my will is reason enough. " St. Paul writes under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. Luther creates a Lutheran Bible under his own audacity. He shows little respect for the Bible when he calls the Epistle of St. James "an Epistle of straw with no character of the Gospel in it." He spoke disparagingly about the Epistle of St. Jude, the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the beautiful Apocalipse of St. John.

They missing books are Baruch, Sirach, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Tobit, Judith, and the Wisdom of Solomon, plus portions of Esther and Daniel.

Answer 7

They are in the Catholic Bible. Check out a NAB (New American Bible) next time you're in the book store. Martin Luther felt that the books weren't divinely inspired so he removed them from the Bible.

Answer 8

http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/

That's where I go to read other stuff, including those Apocryphal books that were taken out of the Bible.

I have read Tobit and Esdras. I started Judith. Apocryphal means 'hidden'. And I believe that they are. I don't like to ignore something that was in the Bible that is referred to as 'hidden' because it makes me think that God did the hiding, and all those in the trap of modern traditions are shunning them. If I read the Bible properly, God works that way soemtimes. He doesn't tell everyone everything. But for those that are predisposed to question things are perhaps the one's that should be looking.

Go ahead and read them, but watch out, they could blow your mind!

Answer 9

Depends on your bible. The Catholics have more books in their bible than do the Protestants. The orthodox have different books. The Ethopian christians have 12 extra books in theirs. Depends really.

Answer 10

They aren't missing. The Church has deemed them as heresy and thus didn't not add them to the Bible. And some were found later not to be real at all, they were written hundreds of years after what they first claimed to be. And one was found to be written by an atheist.