[JMJ333]

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[Desdemona]

You know, I've been asked by protestants why Catholics don't have Revelation in the bible...

One Sunday at my church job, I was looking for something in their bible and couldn't find it. I counted the books and there weren't enough. Never could figure that out. Now i know why. Thank you.

[EODGUY]

Thank you for the very informative post. I haven't seen much of a defense mounted by the usual suspects. :)

Bookmarked for reference.

God bless,

EODGUY

[Gophack]

Also by James Akin, here's a list of Deuterocanoncal references in the NT, ESSENTIAL in apologetics because it shows that Jesus and the Apostles had and refered to deuterocanoncal scripture when spreading the Gospel.

Deuterocanonical References in the New Testament

[Catholicguy]

Great and informative post, JMJ. I'm sure you didn't expect controversy :)

[Catholicguy]

Great and informative post, JMJ.

[Uri’el-2012]

The Apocrypha, those books included in the Roman Catholic Canon, were
never quoted in the New Testament. The Apocrypha was accepted as part
of the Catholic Canon at the Council of Trent in A.D. 1546.

Canonicity aids the believer in accepting the books of the Bible as the
Word of God. These books are to be trusted and used in the believer's
everyday life. The Bible can and should be the central guide in our lives via
the application of It to our lives by the Holy Spirit.

DERICKSON’S NOTES
ON THEOLOGY
by Stanley L. Derickson

The Alexandrian Jews, recognizing the Septuagint as their Bible, accepted
the whole of the Apocrypha as canonical. The Palestine Jews, on the other
hand, limited their canonical Scriptures to the Hebrew Old Testament.

INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD BIBLE
ENCYCLOPEDIA
VOL. 2
B-CYRUS

Tehillim (Psalm) 19:14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.

chuck <truth@Y'shuaHaMashiach>

[Alouette]

During the first century, the Jews disagreed as to what constituted the canon of Scripture. In fact, there were a large number of different canons in use, including the growing canon used by Christians. In order to combat the spreading Christian cult, rabbis met at the city of Jamnia or Javneh in A.D. 90 to determine which books were truly the Word of God.

Begging your pardon for jumping into what is essentially a Christian thread. The Hebrew scriptural canon was sealed much earlier, at the time of the Knessiah Gedolah (Great Synod) at the end of the Babylonian exile and the beginning of the Second Temple. But because some "modern biblical scholars" wished to assign a later date to some of the scriptures, they arbitrarily moved the sealing up to Yavneh. But according to Jewish rabbinic authority, the scriptures were sealed long before that. The Book of Esther was the latest book of scripture included in the Hebrew canon.

[el_chupacabra]

Wow. Another wonderful resource. Bookmarked.

[Salvation]

Here's a link to Dave Armstrong's article:

THE "APOCRYPHA": WHY IT'S PART OF THE BIBLE