Why 7 'Extra' Books of the Catholic Bible? Deuterocanonical Apologetics with Dr Taylor Marshall

Dr Taylor Marshall is the best-selling Catholic author of The Crucified Rabbi, The Eternal City, and Sword and Serpent. He produces weekly Youtube videos (usually published 12pm Central). Please click "Subscribe" button to receive future interviews and conversations.

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[corettaha]

Not a Catholic but have never been satisfied with explanations offered on why we don’t honor these books. This was very helpful and enlightening. Thank you.

[dianesicgala]

Brought up in the Anglican Church in England. Actually up until the about the 1830’s The King James Bible had those 7 extra books in the Old Testament. My dear grandmother had this very old bible that had these extra books in her old bible. She was born in 1877. Wish I had that bible I was living in Northeastern Pa. when she died. Did not have the money to fly back to England when she died. I converted to the Catholic Church living in the U.S.

[xtusvincit]

The question isnt about extra books, but why Protestants erased 7 books from the Bible.

[vanessagarcia]

My friend is shocked and is now “meeting with her pastor to ask this question” I am glad I planted the seed

[fionafairechild]

You guys are rocking it now! Looking so forward to your next several shows!

[ourlifeinwyoming]

Studying history makes everything so clear. Memorizing scriptural snippets to attack Catholics leaves one empty inside.

[ceeshanks]

Thanks Dr. Marshall. I really do appreciate these videos. I'm eager to know more about my faith so that I'm able to defend my positions when occasions arise. I admire your love for mother church.
Godspeed!

[mj]

Maybe others have already mentioned this, but it's not exactly accurate to say that Luther removed 7 books from the Bible. He included the Deuterocanonical books in his German translation. So did the early Calvinists and even the Anabaptists. The issue is how we regard these books. Informed Protestants find these books helpful and, like Luther, encourage their continued reading. In some Protestant churches they are still read along with the Old Testament lessons (mostly Anglican and Lutheran). Protestant churches will also use canticles sourced from these books. To this day you will still find them included in the modern version of Luther's Bible and Bible translations in other predominantly Lutheran countries. Granted, many American Protestants are unfamiliar with the Deuterocanonical books, but this is a more recent phenomena due largely to publishers omitting these books from modern American translations. The issue, then, is whether or not these books should be utilized as a source for establishing doctrine. That's where the Protestant/Catholic divide on these 7 books is more evident. Protestants look at the "Deutero-" nature of the books and say they should not be used to establish doctrine. Catholics look more to the "-canonical" side of the equation and say yes they should. Thanks for a well done video, Dr. Marshall.

[borneandayak]

The right question is : why protestant kick out 7 books from the Bible.

[loganross]

I recently started reading the apocrypha and was like 😯 this is great, why would this ever get removed. I walked in and showed a passage to my in laws and wife thinking they’d be like “wow yeah that’s awesome!” But instead I’m sitting here now after an epically tense uncomfortable and weird interaction like “wow that was a bad idea”.

[seanrathmakedisciples]

A lot of End Times students like to study these books for historical knowledge. If we read all these books then we will have great wisdom and knowledge in Jesus name

[ericascottsthoughts]

Where are the “notes” that show the 70 places the apostles use the deuterocanonical books? That would be very handy to have saved for Protestants who challenge me.

[rebelyell]

Yep....agree wholeheartedly with several below. The real question you need to address is why the Protestants put the kibosh on the 7+. We don't have 7 have 7 missing.

[joan]

I remembered "7 books, & parts of 2 others". Thanks for the refresher. :)

[voltape]

thanks, Dr Marshall - your exposition is very enlightening - the Deuterocanonicals are marvellous books- I loved the Bible by reading first Tobias

[axelrodriguez]

I’d like to bring up questions I’ve had asked of me as a Catholic. 1. The book of Jude and many Church Father site books like Enoch and the Assumption of Moses, which are not canonical. Why aren’t they canonical? 2. The Septuagint also contained other books not found in the canon (like the prayer of Manasseh and psalm 151). Why aren’t they canonical? 3. Many Church Fathers give canon lists that do not match the Catholic canon (like Jerome rejecting Maccabees and Athansius rejecting Sirach as well as Esther). Why not their lists?

To be clear, I am a catholic and have found responses to contemplate when these questions come. But maybe you can do a follow up video to clarify info like this!

[titaniumsteel]

The Bible Is A Catholic Book – Did you ever wonder how the Bible came into being?  A little known, but easily documented fact is that the books of the Bible were compiled by the Catholic Church.  For many years after Christ ascended into Heaven, there was debate about which scriptural writings were inspired by God.  The canon of Scripture (the books of the Bible) was first formally decided at the Synod of Rome in 382.  This decision was upheld at the Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397).  At these Catholic Church councils, the same 46 Old Testament and 27 New Testament books that appear in today’s Catholic Bibles were declared to be inspired by God.  As a side note, approximately 1200 years after this decision was made, Martin Luther and the Protestant reformers removed 7 books from the Old Testament.  As a result, most Protestant Bibles are still missing these 7 books.

[MDashcam]

Every major event in the life of the Messiah was foretold by prophecies. How ever only the book of Wisdom (2:12-21) has the Messianic Prophecy that explains what lead to the crucifixion of the Messiah including what would happen at the crucifixion event (what the Pharisees & the priests said about him on the cross). Is it God inspired then?

[LivingLambsVeganKitchen]

Hi, Dr. Marshall! I don't see the numerous references you'd mentioned that you would put into the comments section (70+ Bible references to the deuterocanonical books). Could you update the description to provide them, by chance? Many thanks, either way!!

[brblum]

My main takeaway? When the apostles quoted the Old Testament, 2/3 of the time it's a direct quote from the Greek Septuagint, which (shocking!) has the 7 deuterocanonical books that Martin Luther pulled out. Case closed for any reasonable reader, I think. Are there any credible counterarguments?