Why do Catholic Bibles have more books?
Catholic Bibles include seven more Old Testament books (Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch) and additions to Esther and Daniel. Jews and Protestants do not include them.
These books were written in the centuries before Jesus and were read by many early Christians. The Council of Trent affirmed them as Scripture in 1546. They are not part of the Hebrew Scriptures, and the New Testament never quotes them as Scripture. Protestants value some of them as history but do not base doctrine on them.
1Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? 2Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
Romans 3:1-2 (WEB) · context
44He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”
Luke 24:44 (WEB) · context
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