Deutercanoncial books

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Does anyone know of any good books on why the Deutercanoncial books should be in the bible? Thanks and God bless.
 
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Does anyone know of any good books on why the Deutercanoncial books should be in the bible? Thanks and God bless.
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Simply it has been the traditon of the church since the beginning. Throughout church history these books were read in churches and were used in the instruction of the Catechumans. At different times and different regions of the church these books fell into and out of favor and there wasn’t a general agreement over which of these additional books are inspired, if any. There were periods when 3 and 4 Maccabees were both considered inspired, although even the Eastern Orthodox do not believe 4 Maccabees is inspired today. Towards the end of the 4th century there was an effort within the Latin Rite to formalize the canon, at this period the Old Testament canon that is in the Catholic Bibles today were determined. Various local counicils afterwards reaffirmed this canon, including the ecumenical council of Florence, the Council of Trent reaffirmed what the previous councils said, hope this helps.
 
Easiest Way to look at why is to look at the history of it. (though this may or may not satisfy you)

Pretext and Logical reason. The OT in the catholic bible is the OT used at the time of Christ. It would make since to use the version used by God Himself

Historical…
  1. Prior to 390 AD there was generally little consensus on what books should be in the bible. Some though Macabees 3,4 should be as well as books like the apocolyps of peter. and such. Others thought books like Revelations, and two of the letters of John should NOT be in the bible.
  2. In 390 AD, the council of Rome conveined for the very purpose of detirmine exactly what books should be in the bible. Out of this came what we see today in the Catholic bible. Regardless of whether you think the catholic church si responsible for compiling the bible or not, this council quelled almost all issues people had with the differant books. This was ratified by two differant councils within a span of a few decades. The council of Hipo (sp) and the council of Carthage
  3. For the next 1100 years, there were no real challanges to this.
  4. This held until Martin Luther came into play in the 1500’s. He removed the 7 books refered to in the Catholic Bible. He also removed James and Revelations ( as well as a few letters of John if I am correct) He also added the word Alone to romans so that a passage would read “by Faith Alone”. Ultimatly he put the NT books back in at the request of his brethren, but would refer to James from that point forward as “an epistle of straw”
  5. Though ML felt the books did not belong, they remained in the Bible for the most part. The 1607 KJV ( i believe thats the right date) also has those books. They pretty much stayed in a large number of protestat bibles in some form or another until the mid 1800’s. At which point a promonent printing press said that if you wanted to print your bible through them, it cant included th Deuterocanonicial. From that day forth, almost no Protestant bibles included those 7 books.
Take from this history what you will. I tried not to slant it for one way or another. If you question the history, research it and you will find it holds water.

To each of you in christ
 
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