Why Each 'Apocryphal' Book Is in the Catholic Bible

Joe Heschmeyer delves into the fascinating history and evidence supporting the inclusion of the deuterocanonical books in the Bible. He provides compelling examples from early church fathers and scripture, demonstrating that these books were widely recognized and quoted as authoritative texts by early Christians. Discover why these books are an essential part of the Christian tradition and how their inclusion sheds light on our understanding of faith and history.

[hirakisk]

The Deuterocanon books was my first step out of Protestantism (although I didn't know it at the time). The more I researched it and would try to argue against them, the more I realized that they were a part of the Early Church's scriptures until after the Protestant Movement. I wasn't too familiar with different translations, but immediately got an NRSV-Catholic Edition to read those books.

[roborob]

A common criticism I hear of the deuterocanon is "the Jews don't use it in their canon". Yeah, you know what other books the Jews don't use in their canon? The entire New Testament. Our canon should not be based on what the Jews have, but rather what God has revealed through the prophets and his Church.

[apocryphanow]

Protestantism claims to only follow scripture. So which scripture said to remove these 7 books from the Bible? Additionally, saying "The Jewish people don't believe in those books" isn't a scripture. The question was which SCRIPTURE says to remover the 7 books of the apocrypha from the Bible IF scripture alone is the authority?

[stray]

obviously they should be there
deuterocanonical is just too fun to say

[healhands]

Protestants keep saying "do not remove or add anything from the Book" (even though they interpret it wrong)
yet they have zero idea that Luther removed the 7 Books of the Bible 😂

[jnkelley]

I'm Episcopalian this topic opened up a whole can of worms with which I was having a conversation with my Priest. Said Priest was arguing that we as Episcopalians' follow Apostolic tradition. I was quoting the Bible and the Early Church Fathers arguing that we (Anglican and Protestant) have not since the Reformation. The Priest then just started going on about how wrong indulgences were. Like that resolves so many of the issues caused by the Reformation. I am now in OCIA and may be Catholic by Christmas.

[juans]

It WAS, the One and ONLY Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ and the Apostles in 33A.D. that produced the Bible! Pope Damasus commissioned St. Jerome to gather all the Writings, Epistles and Gospels and to translate them from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek into the language of the day; LATIN! It WAS, the Catholic Church that DETERMINED which Writings, Epistles and Gospels were the TRUE AND INSPIRED WORD OF GOD, in what order they would appear along with the table of Contents...ALL 73 Books..NOT, Martin Luther. All of this was reviewed and approved during the Councils of Hippo 383A.D. and Carthage 393A.D.

[Misshandel-sd]

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[boedye]

I love this conversation: I would also point out that Paul quotes the Wisdom of Solomon in part, when he is discussing the full armor of God. To further some information, this also gets into an argument about the Masoretic vs. the Septuagint and who is using what. Furthermore, the Oriental Church has even more in their Cannon!

[chromedome]

Thank you so much. This answers many questions about these books.

[kyleshearer]

The appeal to authority is strong with this one.

[gman]

What books are in the Hebrew Bible if you go to a synagogue? Which OT did Jesus use?

[tah]

So then why doesn't the early church fathers cite ENOCH and Protoevangelium of James, as Apocryphal books too, especially since Jude reference Enoch in his letter and the entire Catholic church takes detailed information from the P of James for Mary's history and the names of her parents? Seems inconsistent. Especially when you take info from a book and tell us it is legit info but then discredit the entire book.