The bible is thus the one complete and fully sufficient testimony of the God who created us, containing within its pages everything that he has determined that we could need to be pleasing to him, and live the lives he created us to live; this is why many of the Reformed creeds and confessions speak of the bible as “our only standard for faith and practice”.
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Then explain Why are 7 Books Missing from non catholic Bible in the last few centuries.... How Can God Command himself to remove Books from the Bible which are used by the Catholic Church Founded By his own son Jesus Christ and who said his church will last until the end of time and prevail against the gates of hell...
The Only answer I can figure is man tinkered with the word of GOD...But Why?? is God wrong?? or is man??
The 400 Years after the death of Jesus Christ.where the church was based on oral Tradition...and no complete Bible what then?? hmmm
Just thinking out loud!
“Then explain Why are 7 Books Missing from non catholic Bible in the last few centuries....”
LOL
"The Jewish canon, or the Hebrew Bible, was universally received, while the Apocrypha added to the Greek version of the Septuagint were only in a general way accounted as books suitable for church reading, and thus as a middle class between canonical and strictly apocryphal (pseudonymous) writings. And justly; for those books, while they have great historical value, and fill the gap between the Old Testament and the New, all originated after the cessation of prophecy, and they cannot therefore be regarded as inspired, nor are they ever cited by Christ or the apostles" (Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, book 3, chapter 9)
1. The Roman Catholic Church did not officially canonize the Apocrypha until the Council of Trent (1546 AD). This was in part because the Apocrypha contained material which supported certain Catholic doctrines, such as purgatory, praying for the dead, and the treasury of merit.
2. Not one of them is in the Hebrew language, which was alone used by the inspired historians and poets of the Old Testament.
3. Not one of the writers lays any claim to inspiration.
4. They were not allowed a place among the sacred books, during the first four centuries of the Christian Church.
5. Josephus rejected the apocryphal books as inspired and this reflected Jewish thought at the time of Jesus;
"From Artexerxes to our own time the complete history has been written but has not been deemed worthy of equal credit with the earlier records because of the failure of the exact succession of the prophets." ... "We have not an innumerable multitude of books among us, disagreeing from and contradicting one another, but only twenty-two books, which contain the records of all the past times; which are justly believed to be divine..."(Flavius Josephus, Against Apion 1:8)
6. The Manual of Discipline in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Council of Jamnia both rejected the apocrypha as inspired;
"They debated the canonicity of a few books (e.g., Ecclesiastes), but they changed nothing and never proclaimed themselves to be authoritative determiners of the Old Testament canon. "The books which they decided to acknowledge as canonical were already generally accepted, although questions had been raised about them. Those which they refused to admit had never been included. They did not expel from the canon any book which had previously been admitted. 'The Council of Jamnia was the confirming of public opinion, not the forming of it.'" (F. F. Bruce, The Books and Parchments [Old Tappan, NJ.: Fleming H. Revell, 1963], p. 98])
***Then explain Why are 7 Books Missing from non catholic Bible in the last few centuries....***
I’ve read them. They are irrelivant pious fictions, similar to the Shepherd of Hermas, which is not in the Catholic bibles even though it is in the Sinaiaticus manuscript.
I encourage everyone to read them at lest once to see why they are not important.