[Iscool]

The church did not add them ... they were included in the Jewish translation of the bible into Greek that was used in the early church and by Jews until the rabbis removed them in 90 AD

Well how could they be when the extra books were not recognized by the Jews or Jesus as scripture?

[LadyDoc]

they were part of the Greek Jewish bible that was accepted by most of the Christian and Jewish world at the time of Christ. Paul quoted from this translation when he preached to the Gentiles. Here is a Protestant discussion of the controversy: link

Of course, this thread is posted by someone who posts daily thread about the "evil catholics deliberately changed everything because...well, because they were evil and only those of us in our small tiny church know the TRUTH.

So the one billion Catholics and the half a billion Orthodox Christians are all going to hell, but hey her tiny church will laugh at us from heaven for being evil.