The Protestants don't believe the Catholic doctrine. As far as these books of the Apocrypha go, I do not believe they are a part of the OT, because they do not appear in the Hebrew and never did.
"St. Irenaues, St. Polycarp, ST. Justin Martyr St. Hippolytus, St. Cyprian of Carthage all cited from the Deuterocanonicals in the Doctrinal disputes between the orthodox Catholics and the various Gnostic and other heretical sects."
Wonderful. Nevertheless, the NT begins with the Gospels, not some books that were never in the OT.
spunkets:
Well, that is factually incorrect, there were in fact Hebrew Translations of the Deuterocanonicals at Qumran. And you said it, you don’t believe they are which is another way of saying “I Pope Spunkets” don’t believe they are canonical, but the weight of orthodox Church Tradition is against you and the Church Fathers and their theological debates against various Heretical sects are the ones who helped shape the OT and NT canon that the Church defined, and that canon was not the Protestant Canon.
And the Deuterocanonicals were in the OT, the LXX version [Greek version] which is the version used by the Apostles and early Church as 70% of the quotes from the OT cited in the NT come from the LXX. I have several other posts which clearly document that your position is not part of the Christian Tradition and basically says, I will go with that 2nd century Jews defined, 2nd century Jews in Palestine, to define my canon.