Why do Protestants take such pride in the fact that the King James version of scripture is from the Hebrew?

Question

When it is plain the books of the Maccabees is a very important part of Hebrew history and teachings? Why were they conveniently left out?

Answer 1

The Septuagint, the Greek translation from the original Hebrew, and which contained all the writings now found in the Douay version, as it is called, was the version used by the Saviour and his Apostles and by the Church from her infancy, and translated into Latin, known under the title of Latin Vulgate, and ever recognized as the true version of the written word of God.

Answer 2

Or Number 4. They were inspired by God of the doctrines of truth and saw the misguided books and elected to take them out. For if you follow the patterns set up from Genesis through the whole scripture, that the Messiah was promised to Adam and Eve in the Garden and understand that this promise is the salvation of men, then all the books flow with the same theme. If, however, you are blinded by the religious spirit that only inspires the washing of cups and the rites of Ceremony then you will always want to disregard the truth and follow after the things that will never cleanse the soul.

Answer 3

Pastor Billy says: fact is.. the original KJV didn't leave any books out as it had the same canon as a Roman Catholic bible. It was later generations which altered the KJV.

Another fallacy is believing the KJV OT was translated entirely from Hebrew text. Truth be told there wasn't enough Hebrew and Greek available to the authors of that edition and they in fact depended heavily upon Erasmus' translations which used Latin translations for portion of scripture which good and plentiful Greek & Hebrew were not available.

Answer 4

Due to the fact that these
Christians use the Protestant Old Testament which is lacking 7 entire books 2 (Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus/Sirach, Baruch, I Maccabees, and II Maccabees), 3 chapters of Daniel and 6 chapters of Esther may be one of the reasons they ask catholics so many questions.

For the Sola Scriptura this is too bad .
In the 16th c., Luther removed those books from the canon that lent support to orthodox doctrine, relegating them to an appendix. Removed in this way were books that supported such things as:

prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45),

Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7),

intercession of dead saints (2 Maccabees 15:14),

and intercession of angels as intermediaries (Tobit 12:12-15).

The lesson, though, is this: relying on the "Bible alone" is a bad idea; we are not to rely solely on Sacred Scripture to understand Christ's message. While Scripture is "given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness" (2 Timothy 3:16-17), it is not sufficient for reproof, correction and instruction in righteousness. It is the Church that is the "pillar and ground of Truth" (1 Timothy 3:15)! Jesus did not come to write a book; He came to redeem us, and He founded a Sacramental Church through His apostles to show us the way. It is to them, to the Church Fathers, to the Sacred Deposit of Faith, to the living Church that is guided by the Holy Spirit, and to Scripture that we must prayerfully look.

Answer 5

Actually the seventy King James translators translated the entire bible, including the disputed books. It is just very hard to find a copy of the KJV in this day and age that includes the deuterocanonicals.

Answer 6

Protestants follow the Palestinian Cannon

Catholic follow the Alexandrian Canon

Answer 7

The original editions of the Geneva, and King James Bible had the Apocrypha in them. In fact it was only fairly recently that they were all together removed. Even though they were included, it was noted that they were not inspired text. I personally believe there is some historical benefit to reading them, and have read them myself a couple times.

Answer 8

Well, they may be important....but the Jews did not consider the Apocryphal books of 1 and 2 Maccabees to be a part of their scriptural canon, either.

Answer 9

The texts from Antioch were pure.The Alexandrian texts were so corrupt that they were found in a monastery trash can.Yet all the non-KJV's use the corrupted texts.

Answer 10

King James butchered the Bible. There is nothing to be proud about.