Did Catholics Add 7 Books to the Bible? Or Did Protestants Remove Them?

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  @andrewpruett3719 · 3 years ago

  This was one of the reasons I became Catholic. I had no actual knowledge as to why or where the Bible came from. When I started looking into it you have no choice but to accept the Catholic Bible and everything else starts falling into place with Catholic teaching.

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  @mac3441 · 3 years ago

  I’m a cradle Catholic but I’ve had a lot of journeying with Protestants, namely my wife (who will be received into the church next month, pray for her and us if you please), so I have love and respect for Protestant people, but man, the more I learn about Protestant origins, the more angry  and disgusted I get. Outright lies about Christ’s church, theologies of self masquerading as presupposed “biblical” teaching. The more I hear of Luther, the more unhinged and unwell he seems to be; Calvin seemingly a wrathful dictator. Praying for unity becomes so taxing in light of all this, but I’ll keep at it. Thanks for your work Joe, this was a great explainer of the historical data, I definitely learned a few things!

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  @timboslice980 · 3 years ago

  My family are old school methodists.... I was baptized in that denomination and I remember my grandfather had a really old methodist Bible. It was amazing the size of it. The deuterocanon was there as well but had all been moved to the back of the book. I asked my grandad about them... he said they're real Bible stories but fell out of popularity. I'm like how does anything sacred just fall out of popularity? He never told me catholics still keep them, why we had moved them to the back, or why they became unpopular. For me it was just another bread crumb on the trail to rome.

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• SA

  @sartoriusrock · 3 years ago

  Recent revert to Catholicism here - I've heard every take from here to Sunday about this topic, very interested in what lies in store!

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• AT

  @atgred · 3 years ago

  A Bible without Wisdom is a Bible without wisdom.

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• TR

  @tr1084 · 3 years ago

  I've had this discussion with protestants several times before. When I point out that the Eastern Orthodox canon  contains these books while schisming centuries before Trent, I'm usually just met with "what's an orthodox?" People need to read more. Search engines are amazing things.

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  @Protestant_to_Christian · 3 years ago (edited)

  I know a person who converted from Calvinism to Christianity after studying the Early Church Fathers.

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• ST

  @StGeorge777 · 3 years ago

  This whole topic is like when someone claims that JRR Tolkien was ripping off JK Rowling. And you realize that their "facts" are totally backward. 😂

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• KE

  @kevinmullee6578 · 3 years ago

  This was so well done!  Wouldn't it be nice if that protestant Todd fellow actually gave Catholics a fair shake on the matter.  It's not even the 'Catholic' viewpoint, it's just simply the historical chain of events that 100% vindicate the Catholic viewpoint.  Thank you Joe for your work.

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• FO

  @Forester- · 3 years ago

  I'd love to hear Todd Friel tell us what else he agrees with Jerome on.

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  @ΕλέησονΑμαρτωλόν · 3 years ago

  Pretty tough to get around the Christological prophecy in Wisdom chapter 2.   Good episode Joe.

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• AU

  @audesigns42 · 3 years ago

  My wife and I have been reading through Sirach, and we have LOVED it!

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