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Adding books to the Bible by the RCC is similar to putting 23 gallons of gasoline in a 20 gallon tank. It makes a horrible mess and pollutes the environment.

Removing books from the Bible by Martin Luther and successive generations of Reformers is heretical and worthy of excommunication from the Church.

The Jews and those dreaded "Protestants" simply kept the 20 gallons which only the Jews were authorized to put into the tank.

The books were put into the Septuagint, which almost the entire Jewish nation world wide used. It was the anti Catholic Council of Jamnia 60 years after Jesus died, was resurrected and Ascended, that decided in reaction to the dreaded Christian cult springing up, that they would remove the Septuagint from consideration and went with the Hebrew OT.

The precedent is awful; not only Scripture can be modified by Martin Luther's any milkmaid, but so can the basic doctrines of Christianity.

Removing books from the Bible by Martin Luther and successive generations of Reformers is heretical and worthy of excommunication from the Church.

Actually, Jerome's Canon did not include the apochrypha as God breathed scripture.

While there were some who followed Augustine and the Councils of Hippo and Carthage in accepting the Apocryphal books, the vast majority of theologians, bishops and cardinals throughout the Middle Ages followed Jerome. This is seen in three major historical examples: the express statements of the Glossa ordinaria-the official Biblical commentary used during the Middle Ages, the teaching of major theologians who cited Jerome as the authority for determining the authoritative canon of the Old Testament, and Bible translations and commentaries produced just prior to the Reformation.

http://www.christiantruth.com/articles/Apocrypha3.html

Even Cardinal Cajetan, Luther's foe, did not subscribe to the apochrypha being scripture. Which was certainly fine, Trent had not officially included it yet.

The books were put into the Septuagint, which almost the entire Jewish nation world wide used. It was the anti Catholic Council of Jamnia 60 years after Jesus died, was resurrected and Ascended, that decided in reaction to the dreaded Christian cult springing up, that they would remove the Septuagint from consideration and went with the Hebrew OT.

There could have been no "anti Catholic" anything in 60AD. There was no such thing as a Catholic Church.

The so-called Septuagint, there was no single version, was compiled by Hellenist Jews in Koine Greek. It included the Hebrew books and additional material not part of the original Hebrew.

The Council of Jamnia compiled the only valid Scripture. The Hebrew Scripture.