Hi Neesaki, could you give me the names of the books that were left out ? I'd like to look into it just for curiousity. Glad you had a nice Christmas, ours was same as usual. Amy and Johnny gave me a cane. My hip has been hurting and my knee threarens to fold on me. They dont want me to fall. Buffy loved his bone. :seeya:
Evening gramma :seeya:
So sorry about your painful hip and folding knees. Hope they get better soon.
Hope the holidays were good for you.
If I may answer the question about the names of the books left out:
A popular misconception is that the King James Version of the bible does not include the Apocrypha, what the Roman Catholics call the "deuterocanonical" scriptures. However, the King James Version - the translation, that is - actually includes all of these scriptures and several other scriptures as well.
The books called Apocrypha, which includes
1 & 2 Esdras
The Prayer of Manasseh
These scriptures are not included in modern Roman Catholic bibles. Although they were included at one time, the Council of Trent determined that they were not inspired and so could be omitted. The first Roman Catholic English translation - the Douay-Rheims bible of 1610 - included these scriptures in an appendix.
P.S. Forgot to mention - the *reason* that we don't see these scriptures in certain "Protestant" bibles is that Luther deemed them uninspired (along with James, Esther and Revelation). Later Protestant groups felt more strongly about them. According to the Harper Collins Bible Dictionary, the Puritans were the first group to produce a bible that actually omitted the Apocrypha (in the late 1590's). The practice spread from that time to other Protestant sects (not all!) and to other countries.
Source(s):
HARPERCOLLINS BIBLE DICTIONARY. Copyright (c) 1985, 1996 by The Society of Biblical Literature.
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I came upon a Bible that is called "The Complete Bible."
In the OT section there are 53 books.
5 books are called "The Pentateuch."
12 books called "The Historical Books."
5 "Poetical Books."
17 books of "The Prophets."
and 14 books called "The Apocrypha."
The NT section has the same 27 books in it.
With the OT and the NT combined the "Complete Bible" contains 80 books.
7 more books then the Catholic Bible has.
14 more then the Protestant Bible has.
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Hope this helps (I'm not an expert on the bible tho') and that this answer is not something that WS will ban.
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