The Books of Tobias, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 1 Machabees, 2 Machabees, are the 7 books taken out from the Bible by the reformers

[Murray1105]

To answer your question, what do we do now? I believe we must work for unity. There are many wonderful things we can learn from Catholics, Orthodox, and protestants. But I believe the first step is to seek truth cause if god exists then truth exists as well. I am a convert from the Wesleyan Church. My journey to Catholicism started when a fundamentalist challenged my views and claimed his church was the restored church because the catholic church commited apsotasy. Although I didn’t agree with his interpretation of the apostasy, he did convince me that the church can not be divided. Division is pretty much condemned by the new testament authors. My first thought was all christians agree on the essentials, but I was wrong. Luther, Calvin, and wesley all had dramatically different views on how we are saved. Each theory can not co-exist with the other. If wesley was right Luther and Calvin are destined to hell for not becoming perfect sinless men. If Luther was right Wesley is destined to burn for being an unrepentent sinner who is too full of pride to se his own faults. I Started to read about the pope and thought if catholics are wrong about who they claim he is, he is a tyrant. Would god give such authority to a man? obviously along my journey I discovered yes he can and did in the old and new covenants. For me learning that there are over 30,000 protestant churches worldwide with different beliefs ment that this was the wrong place to find truth. Nothing against protestantism but there is nothing more divided, inconsistant, and incompatable than with eachother. The Jews are still more unified. So is Islam. So if the christian faith is true there must be an absolute truth. St. Paul says “the pillar and bullwark of the truth is the church”. We must seek The truth. It is the only way we can truely find god.

 

[Hisalone]

1. Not all the books of the LXX are in the Catholic Canon.
2. Jerome never believed the Apocry was part to the canon.
3. The apocry was never part of the Jewish canon.
4. It was not until Trent that the issue was settled for Catholics, after the Prots decided.

 

[oneGODoneCHURCH]

=Hisalone;5390206]

1. Not all the books of the LXX are in the Catholic Canon.

no they are a couple books not included i for one am not sure why although there are Orthodox that do have those books in their cannon

1. Jerome never believed the Apocry was part to the canon.

This is not true Jerome did question but never stated out right the the DC books should not be in the Cannon

1. The apocry was never part of the Jewish canon.

Well that is true as there was no such thing as a Jewish Cannon til about 70 are 90 AD. some such as the Sadducee only recognized the Books of Moses, other would include some of the prophets still other used the LXX, Jesus and I believe most if not all of the Apostles are included in that Group.

1. It was not until Trent that the issue was settled for Catholics, after the Prots decided.

As with most this the Church never set thing in stone till it was forced to by opposition. The cannon was settled by the council of Hippo I was then at Trent that it had to firmly restated the combat the protestant removals also it maybe o some interest that it was still another hundred years or more before the Protestants finally removed them as a showing o total seperation form the Catholic Church.

Sort of Like the Jews formally remove them for all sect of Judaism in response to the Christians using them it was also the same time they decide that non of the Christian writings were inspired This really has nothing to do with Luther,Calvin, or any from their time as they had Passed on by the time the books were removed. this is about the Protestants protesting and making another statement that they do not have to listen to Rome.