How to explain to others that removing 7 books from the bible is forbidden

[KevinMcc]

I saw in the bible somwhere awhile back a Phrase in the bible that said you can’t edit the Bible You can’t change the word of GOD…

I have a situation that comes up often By Sola Scriptura believers where I try to explain… How can you start your belief in Sola Scriptura by Editing the Catholic Bible of 7 Books!

Backround these are the Same Books removed from the Old testemant by the Jews because they weren’t written originally written in Hebrew at the time of Compilation of the Old testament by St Jerome in 70 AD, in 90 AD the Jews asked for them to be removed because they were in Greek… The Jews in Alexandria spoke Greek as their mother tongue… Later they found the scripture in Hebrew but Jews needed to keep their distance from Catholicism.Oye ve

My Question again is where does it mention that we are unable to Change the word of GOD…

Thanks happy new year!

 

[MatthewBerkeley]

There’s the very end of Revelation where it says:
‘This is my solemn attestation to all who hear the prophecies in this book: if anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him every plague mentioned in the book; if anyone cuts anything out of the prophecies in this book, God will cut off his share of the tree of life and of the holy city, which are described in the book.’ NJB Rev 22:18-19

Unfortunately, this can be easily rebutted by saying that it refers only to the Book of Revelation, which is probably the original meaning of the writer, as the Bible hadn’t been compiled by the time of writing.
As for another more solid reference, I can’t think of any, sorry.
God bless

 

[prodigalson12]

Well, this is what I tell my protestant brethren. They are being short changed by not having the additional books, there is valuable teachings within them, and especially if you insist upon only solo scripture, wouldn’t you want the full gospel as your base, not just part of it?

The fact that we have even more books that never made it is the usual argument, but if you read the other books, you would see clearly as to why they are not included, in some cases they are fragmented, others go off on some pretty crazy tangents, yet if you can read with discernment, they too are still available for reference. Gospel of Thomas is a good one in that regard, some of what’s written there is pulled off of it and included within the accepted cannons, other parts, out right bizarre, but the overall feel for it, from my perspective, it seems like someone trying to quote Christ without knowing his language and not even a good grasp of their own, at least literary, so much of what is written becomes obscured and is illegible for any practical use.

I remember bringing out my Catholic bible to a friends of mines place, at the time he was very bigoted about the Catholic faith and considered my version to be very off compared to his own, even though he never gave it a chance at comparison within what was written within his version and mine. Stuff like this, total ignorance and fear of the truth, or blinded by the lies and no desire to test what he’s been told to believe. This is another reason I suspect these other cannons are still not being accepted by protestants. It’s a shame really, and again, back to what I say as they being short changed.

Protestant readers, here is one of them in case you are curious, in a nutshell it explains the Jews plight at the time, it clearly shows God’s mercy and power, it also shows how Angels played a big part in helping the Jews defeat their enemies.

usccb.org/nab/bible/2maccabees/intro.htm

 

[Secret_Square]

The most solid argument I can think of for using the Catholic (Greek) canon of Scripture (also known as the Septuagint or “LXX” because it was said to have been produced by a team of 70 scholars) is that it is the version that Christ Himself cited whenever He quoted the Old Testament.

By the way: St. Jerome didn’t compile the Old Testament in 70 AD, he lived from 347 to 420 A.D. and produced the first complete Latin translation of Scripture known as the Vulgate (because it was in the “vulgar” or common language of the time). Also, ironically, he was the first Church scholar who DIDN’T rely completely on the Septuagint for his translation – he went back to the original Hebrew versions for the Old Testament books that were originally in Hebrew, a move that was very controversial at the time since the LXX was considered THE authoritative canon of scripture even then.

 

[Edwardjohn]

I saw in the bible somwhere awhile back a Phrase in the bible that said you can’t edit the Bible You can’t change the word of GOD…

I have a situation that comes up often By Sola Scriptura believers where I try to explain… How can you start your belief in Sola Scriptura by Editing the Catholic Bible of 7 Books!

Backround these are the Same Books removed from the Old testemant by the Jews because they weren’t written originally written in Hebrew at the time of Compilation of the Old testament by St Jerome in 70 AD, in 90 AD the Jews asked for them to be removed because they were in Greek… The Jews in Alexandria spoke Greek as their mother tongue… Later they found the scripture in Hebrew but Jews needed to keep their distance from Catholicism.Oye ve

My Question again is where does it mention that we are unable to Change the word of GOD…

Thanks happy new year!

I’ve always thought that when the 7 books were removed the number of books became 66, and, the fact that man(man’s number being 6) removed them gave a combination of 666.
The number of books in the Church’s Bible is 73, a pretty solid number. Now this is, of course, my own explanation, and is the argument I put forth.

 

[osddso]

I’ve always thought that when the 7 books were removed the number of books became 66, and, the fact that man(man’s number being 6) removed them gave a combination of 666.
The number of books in the Church’s Bible is 73, a pretty solid number. Now this is, of course, my own explanation, and is the argument I put forth.

thats pretty interesting…

so 73 books of the catholic bible - 7 books removed for kjv bible = 66
did 6 people work on the protestant bible? im not sure how you got the final 6

 

[Edwardjohn]

Man was created on the 6th day, therefore his number is 6. God rested on the 7th, therefore that is the number of completion. 3 is the number of the trinity. 73 is a prime number; solid.
This is just something that came into my thought process when I had the same question as you.
Also, check out Daniel 3:57-88. It doesn’t exist in the protestant Bible. It is praise of the Lord. Why would that be considered uninspired by the compilers of the protestant Bible? God inhabits praise.
I’m not going to say that their version of scripture in invalid; all scripture is God-breathed, but I just don’t trust it for the fullness, the completeness.