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Please tell me if the seven additional books of the Old Testament in the Catholic bible were ADDED during the Reformation...OR...did Martin Luther TAKE AWAY those seven books from the bible during the Protestant Reformation?
The truth is that the Roman Catholic church added those books at the council of Trent. Nowhere prior to that were these books treated as being scripture or shown equality to the canonical books of the Bible.
- These books were not included in the Jewish canon.
- The Roman Catholics frequently will point to Jerome, the original source of the Latin vulgate who put the Apocryphal books in with his copy of the scriptures, however he did not see them as equal to scripture and argued against them being given equal status. The Council of Carthage decided that the Apocryphal books could be read in churches even though Jerome objected.
- Likewise, when the first editions of the KJV were issued, the Apocryphal books were included for reference, but were not included as part of the canon. The same was true of other copies of the scriptures.
References:
1) F.F. Bruce, The Canon of Scripture
2) The Shape of Sola Scriptura, Keith A. Mathison
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