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To: GonzoII

“The deuterocanonical books are not found in the Hebrew Bible. They were added by the Catholic Church at the Council of Trent after Luther rejected it.”

Framing an argument to deceive. The deuterocanonical books were not considered scripture by the Jews, but neither were they just added at the Council of Trent.

Many in the Catholic Church felt free to reject the Deuterocanonicals as scripture, or as scripture good for doctrine. It WAS the Council of Trent that made the decision to authoritatively place them in the Canon, but by an underwhelming vote...and I believe they punted on the question of using them for doctrine.


5 posted on 11/07/2009 9:20:08 AM PST by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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To: Mr Rogers
The so-called deuterocanonical books were part of the Bible in the Middle Ages. I think all of the Eastern churches (Greek Orthodox and others) accept them as part of the Bible. The Council of Trent reaffirmed the Catholic position but that wasn't a new departure.

I think most Protestant Bibles had the extra books in them, in a separate section between the Old Testament and the New Testament, as books that were good to read even if they weren't regarded as part of the Bible, until the early 19th century.

14 posted on 11/07/2009 9:49:46 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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