When did Catholics add books to the Bible?

Question

They never did. The Jews and the Protestants removed books from the OT. The Catholic Church simply received the Septuagint version of the Hebrew scriptures, from the Jews, at the time of Christ. This became known as the Old Testament. 70 years later, the Jews removed 7 Old Testament books from the Septuagint. The reason given for this was that they could no longer find those books in Hebrew.

In 1529, Martin Luther removed the same 7 books from the Catholic Old Testament, that the Jews had removed1400 years earlier. Luther also removed 4 New Testament books (Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation) that did not agree with his theology, for his German translation. These books were removed from their original place in the order of the books and placed together at the end of the Bible. In later editions, he was persuaded to return the New Testament books to to their proper position in his translation of the Bible. Today Protestant Bibles don’t contain 7 Old Testament books at all.

My question is, what is the Septuagint?

Answer 1

Very good.

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 that were removed supported such things as
+ Prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45)
+ Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7)
+ Intercession of saints in heaven (2 Maccabees 15:14)
+ Intercession of angels (Tobit 12:12-15)

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

As I have said in this forum many times, the bible was given to the world by the church. Before the advent of the printing press it was never widely circulated. When it became widely circulated it was the original Bible with seven more books than the King James version has today. Those seven books were removed after Martin Luther started the first Protestant community and when the Protestant church in England reevaluated the books in the light of Protestant beliefs. Two of the books removed, one and two Maccabees, are the only source for Jews or anyone else of the true story of Hanukkah.
If you want to read the entire Bible you need to get a Douay Riems Version which contains all of the original books.

Answer 3

it is totally perplexing because of the fact the two are technically good. whilst the Jewish human beings (the messengers of God) desperate the canon of the bible (in simple terms the outdated testomony, they eradicated some books. even inspite of the undeniable fact that, 3 hundred years later, whilst the recent testomony scriptures have been desperate via the Orthodoxy, they desperate to comprise those 7 books. 1500 years later, Martin Luther desperate to repair the unique Jewish outdated testomony. After that, whilst the Catholics chop up from Orthodoxy, they bumped off three extra books that the orthodox had till now extra. those books have been debated for 1000's of years, and it extremely is in simple terms approximately impossible to tell which canon of the three is sweet.

Answer 4

We didn't add any books, After the protestant reformation some denominations decided to remove some books from the bible. There choice The only book that is forbidden for being altered in any way is the Book of Revelations

Answer 5

It's way too complicated to explain in a forum.
You can find the Septuagint at the link below.

Answer 6

the septuagint is the OT in greek, which was the language of operation back in the day

Answer 7

Jews did not remove books from the OT. They don't follow the OT. They follow the Torah, which obviously pre dates the OT.

Answer 8

why has some of the dead sea scrolls been left out when they were all found together? one the books contains info linking the pagon worshipers of today and since the beginning to it! and the world does not want u u and me to know! or then the secret would be out!

Answer 9

LOL, you asked a question AND answered it.