Should we read books that are not part of the Bible?

Frank is often asked the question: “What books should be in the Bible?” which leads to other questions like, “The Roman Catholics and Protestants have different books in their Bibles; why?” It is important that we know how we got our Bible and why some books were rejected. Even though some books did not make it into the Biblical canon, does that mean they hold no value? Frank explains the answer to these three questions here. Check it out!

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The Bible is the most significant book ever written

[NegdoshaManido]

Reading other extrabiblical works like Enoch, Jubilees, Jasher, the antenicene church fathers, and materials from the dead sea scrolls etc is like reading the Federalist Papers. It's not the Constitution, but you get some good insight into it because of the background it provides for the times, the people and their mindset during the writing of that great document. A good scholar never limits themself to one document, but takes information from many other supporting documents.

[garyjohnson]

Read the word and then, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not ..." Don't ask for proof, ask God for faith. Don't listen to anyone who talks about proof or evidence. Listen to the Holy Spirit and let him guide you.

[rockbadenuff]

It's funny how tons of books on the subject of the bible are written and read and we should read them. A lot of them are very informative like an exhaustive concordance or the many commentaries that have been written over the centuries. There's a wealth of extra-biblical literature out there but we have to discern between the biblical canon and the extra-biblical literature. Thank you, Jesus!

[endorolfgreenwolf]

If you read anything outside of the bible and anything in the bible, make sure you pray for wisdom in what God wants you to know.

[imabeast]

I would say don't even read them unless you're strong enough to leave them after!

[NexusZ]

Short answer Yes.
Long answer: Yes, but you should have a strong foundation for what is scripture, and what might merely have been a common book that helped inform scripture. There are wise uses for all books, but not all should be scripture.

[jetsonjose]

Very good explanation at the beginning. Misguiding statement starts from 04:13 onwards... Fact is Canon of bible were fixed much earlier than that..Bible was canonised by Catholic church in the late 3rd century. The process culminated in 382 as the Council of Rome, which was convened under the leadership of Pope Damasus, promulgated the 73-book scriptural canon. The biblical canon was reaffirmed by the regional councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397), and then definitively reaffirmed by the ecumenical Council of Florence in 1442).

[Tariphilip]

Timely video. My classmates argued about canon today in the class.

[richarddunn]

But the council of Trent didn't add any books, they just affirmed the books that were already there in response to the reformation. Maccabees and the other apocryphal books were included in Jerome's vulgate in the 300s, and they stayed untouched until the reformation challenged them in the 1500s.

It's worth mentioning Jerome did not personally consider the Apocrypha to be canon, he was just obeying the church. Still, to say the council of Trent added books is inaccurate. It is the reformation that removed books, the debate is whether or not they were justified.

[joecross]

St. Jerome translated all 73 books of the Bible into Latin in the third century AD; this translation is referred to as the Vulgate. The Council of Trent only affirmed that the Vulgate was the correct and full translation of the Bible in response to moves within the Protestant Reformation to remove seven books from the Bible as being non-canonical due to the period in which the books were written or due to the language the source document was written. The Council did not add books; the books were already there.

[TheABYZ]

I praise God that this topic popped up on my mind early on (since as days go by there is more and more clarity and we can easily distinguish between the questions prompted by the Holy Spirit and the evil one).
That's when I was keen towards the book of Enoch. But something struggled within me that I couldn't read it but was diverted more into reading the Bible.
When the Holy Spirit speaks - it's gentle but very sharp and mainly 'spot on', like literally 'every single cell freezes to listen to Him'.
That's how I understood when He made realize with a gentle question - "Have I read and understood the mysteries of the Bible in its entirety? And is God so less powerful even if I'm less learned to teach/show me everything by Himself?".

Immediately my mind became 'crystal clear and peaceful'.

[thomasmichael]

Why would we need anything else when we have the most important words ever spoken, the words of eternal life through Jesus Christ. Everything else is insignificant after the Word.

[sarahbethlauritzen]

You can tell which books are inspired by knowing the spirit of God, reading the words and then seeing if it plays out in real time or not....the Lord is so good to make it so simple.

[wimdufoort]

1 Enoch counts as Old Testament scripture in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and has played a significant role in its theology, especially via the andemta tradition of interpretation.

[RobertA-oihw]

We should definitely stay away from the gnostic books. There's a reason why they were not included in the Bible. A good reason.

[kevinestrada]

"Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you."- Deuteronomy 4:2, "What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it."- Deuteronomy 12:32, "Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."- Proverbs 30:6, & "18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."- Revelation 22:18-19

[kevinclint]

THE HOLY BIBLE IS THE PERFECT HOLY WORD OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, ………. AMEN

[kenneth]

The apocrypha was included in protestant Bibles (1566 and 1599 Geneva Bible as well as the King James Bible) until the 1880's, it was considered profitable reading but not canonical. I have an old King James Bible that has some center column references to apocryphal books even though it does not contain the apocrypha.

[BradySteed]

What a delightful explanation. I really appreciate how articulate this is.