48. THE QUESTION WAS:
According to Protestant church historian J.N.D. Kelly, what did the
Churchs Old Testament always include?
THE ANSWER IS
.C
..the
so-called Apocrypha
The Apocrypha refers to the books of the Old Testament that the
Catholic Church has, but which the Protestant churches do not have.
Nice Protestants refer to these books as the Deuterocanonical books and not the Apocrypha.
According to the article The Old Testament Canon by James Akin:
Even Protestant church historian J. N. D. Kelly admits, "It should be observed that the
Old Testament thus admitted as authoritative in the Church was somewhat bulkier
and more comprehensive [than the Protestant Bible]. . . . It always included,
though with varying degrees of recognition, the so-called apocrypha or
deuterocanonical books" (Early Christian Doctrines, 53), which
are rejected by Protestants
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LINKS on the DEUTEROCANONICAL BOOKS
http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/deutero2.htm (The Old Testament
Canon)
http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/deutero.html (Why do Protestants Not Have
7 Books of the Old Testament?)
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/DEUTEROS.HTM (Defending the
Deuterocanonicals)
http://ic.net/~erasmus/RAZ325.HTM (Luther vs. the Canon of the Bible)
http://www.scborromeo.org/truth/fig4.htm (Chart Showing Which Writings the Catholic Church Decided
Would or Would Not Be in the Bible)
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4300 (Uncomfortable Facts About the Douay-Rheims)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13722a.htm (The Septuagint)
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