Ha! Because the Catholic Church said so and 1500 years later some protesters pulled the Apocryphal made other changes and went their own way. 500 years later, some guy that doesn’t fully know history writes this article.
I am confused, help me understand. Are you saying the Bible was canonized by the Catholic Church?
Who are the protesters? The Protestants? What changes to the Bible did they make?
This guy does not know history? What is his particular lack of history?
These are genuine, sincere questions.
Um, sorry.
It was the Bishop of Alexandria, the tradition of Mark not of Rome or Peter, that sent forth the 27 books of the New Testament. In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave a list of exactly the same books that would formally become the New Testament.
So what exactly did the Apocryphal book add to Salvation or any thing else in the OT or NT? The only thing I have found was that from one single verse your denomination made a completely false doctrine on purgatory. As far as other changes please enlighten me as the Bible I use and your denominations Bible are for the most part word for word.