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”Catholic bible contains the apocrypha..books even the Jews don’t accept. Even the church admits that it is not inspired texts but historical. The catholic church only added them to after the reformation. They admit there are false teachings in them as well.”

1. The correct name for the books of the Bible removed by Martin Luther is the deuterocanonical books.

2. The Jews also reject the New Testament books. The Jews do not determine the canon for Christians.

3. The Church recognized the current biblical canon since the fourth century. It was only reaffirmed at the Council of Trent in response to the “Reformers” removing them with no authority to do so.

4. The Church affirms the inspiration of the deuterocanonical books and does not “admit of false teaching in them” because there are none.

See post 24.

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"The Church recognized the current biblical canon since the fourth century. It was only reaffirmed at the Council of Trent in response to the “Reformers” removing them with no authority to do so."

The Catholic Church as a whole never accepted any formal canon in a full churchwide counsel until the counter-reformation. There we were some regional counsels in the 4th century that accepted the canon previously recognized; as recorded, for example, in Athanasius' 39th Festal letter.