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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
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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>

Sorry Chuck. I admire your html skills, but not your knowledge of the history of the Bible.

"The Council of Trent added the Deuterocanon to have Scriptural backup for its many false teachings, and in doing so contradicted the universal practice of Christianity up to that time."
The Council of Trent added nothing to the Old Testament, rather it simply re-affirmed the ancient practice of the Apostles and the decisions of the early Church through a universal dogmatic definition.
The 59th decree of the Council of Laodicea in 363 AD gives a list of the Old Testament books which is entirely identical with the decree of the Council of Trent. The Council of Rome in 383 AD and the Councils of Carthage 393, 397 and 419 AD all published canons again identical with that of the Council of Trent. So did Pope Innocent I in 405 AD, Pope Gelasius I in 495 AD, Pope Hormisdas in 520 AD and Pope Eugene IV at the Council of Florence in 1441. The practice of the separated Oriental Churches has likewise always been the same.

More information can be found here" "The Canon of the Bible"

Here is a quote from the introduction of the 1611 KJV Bible that I found interesting.

"The translation of the Seventy [Septuagint] dissenteth from the Original in many places, neither does it come near it, for perspicuity, gratuity, majesty; yet which of the Apostles did condemn it? Condemn it? Nay, they used it (as it is apparent, and as Saint Jerome and most learned men do confess), which they would not have done, nor by their example of using it, so grace and commend it to the Church, if it had been unworthy the appellation and name of the Word of God."

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.

From the article:

The canon of Scripture, Old and New Testament, was finally settled at the Council of Rome in 382, under the authority of Pope Damasus I. It was soon reaffirmed on numerous occasions. The same canon was affirmed at the Council of Hippo in 393 and at the Council of Carthage in 397. In 405 Pope Innocent I reaffirmed the canon in a letter to Bishop Exuperius of Toulouse. Another council at Carthage, this one in the year 419, reaffirmed the canon of its predecessors and asked Pope Boniface to "confirm this canon, for these are the things which we have received from our fathers to be read in church." All of these canons were identical to the modern Catholic Bible, and all of them included the deuterocanonicals.

This exact same canon was implicitly affirmed at the seventh ecumenical council, II Nicaea (787), which approved the results of the 419 Council of Carthage, and explicitly reaffirmed at the ecumenical councils of Florence (1442), Trent (1546), Vatican I (1870), and Vatican II (1965).