Are the Apocrypha Books Scripture?
This month I’ll focus on an issue that many people aren’t even aware of; the differences between the Protestant’s Bible and the Roman Catholic Bible. The Catholic Bible has included in it the Deuterocanonical Books, whereas the Protestants Bible excludes these books and refers to them as the Apocrypha Books. The Apocrypha consists of 12 books and portions of books which were produced during the intertestamental period. So the Old Testament Books in question are: Tobit, Judith,The additions to the Book of Esther, 1 and 2 Maccabees,the Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Baruch and the Additions to the Book of Daniel. In Catholic Bibles there are twelve that are interspersed among and attached to the undisputed thirty-nine books of the Old Testament. Since several of the apocryphal writings are combined with canonical books, the Catholic Bible numbers altogether forty-six books in its Old Testament. It appears that the Catholic Church claims that these books should be part of
