WHY THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN MOST BIBLES (The following comes from Pr Doug Batchelors Bible Answers Live radio program.) There were some books that had been submitted for consideration as inspired, they called them Scripture, but when they did the study at the Council of Trent, they realized that these were Apocryphal books that were creeping in. They were not recognized by the early church fathers. Everything that we have in the typical protestant Bible today was recognized as inspired by the people that actually lived at the same time as the Apostle John. Before that generation that knew John, died off they all agreed upon the books that we have in our Bible. The other reason why some of these Apocryphal books were removed is because none of the other Bible authors referenced them and they just appeared out of nowhere. So whenever you are reading a new testament book, Peter refers to Paul, Paul refers to Peter, Jude refers to Peter. They cross pollinate and endorse one another. These other books were totally…they came out of the blue; they had no endorsement from any other Bible writer. They weren’t endorsed by the early church fathers and so they were considered suspect and it just finally came about at the council. They said, “We’ve got to stop introducing these other books as Scripture because they weren’t recognized that way.”
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:44:42 +0000
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