Judith, Wisdom and Tobit oh my!

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Originally Posted by Radiant1

My last word in this thread --

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Originally Posted by Radiant1

The only copy and paste I've done in this thread was from wiki, which is not a Catholic or Protestant source and duly sited.
I have numerous "sites of choice" but I'm glad to hear you're reading at least one of them whichever it may be.

Then Wiki must have quoted the other source because it's word for word from it. Sure I read most of them...so I can rightly discredit them.

Originally Posted by OrneryPest

From what I understand, the Deuterocanonical Books were part of the original Bible, the Old Testament having been derived from the Septuagint, which included them. Then near the end of the Middle Ages, somebody discovered they weren't canonically accepted by the Jewish community, so they started making Bible translations that excluded them. So then some denominations (including the Episcopal church, which I participate in) re-added these books in a separate section called the Apocrypha. So, which of the many versions of our Bible is the one God Himself actually wrote? Hey, I don't claim to know!

Sadly the devil has caused many "bible" versions to be counterfeited. The best way to find a good Bible is to, first, avoid any of them with a denominational name attached to them. I've used the New International Version (NIV) for the last 22 years because of it's accuracy and ease of reading & understanding.

The Apocryphal books are books that were written during the 400 years between the OT & NT. Some of them were not written by the person they were named after (Not always a bad thing, however). Each of those writings have been shown to contain some contradictions to the 66 Canonical books so they shouldn't be used. The Canon of Scripture (The original 66 books) was "closed" forever so nothing was added or left out as many claim.

There are thousands of copies of the original OT & NT writings so the original intent of the writers has been clearly discovered. A good Bible translation will contain everything people need to answer most of their questions in life...