And whenever He was expressing His nonconformity with what the scribes and Pharisees were saying and doing, He would always say, “Have you not read.?” or “It is written.” He was, of course, referring to the writings in the Old Testament.įor example, in Matthew 21:15-16 (KJV), it says,ġ5 And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David they were sore displeased,ġ6 And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

In one instance He said, “Have you not read, In the Beginning God created them, male and female?” He was referring to the Book of Genesis. When they wrote their respective books in the New Testament, they cited books in the Old Testament.Īctually, even the Lord Jesus Christ Himself cited the books in the Old Testament several times when He preached. And we have valid and concrete reasons to believe so.įirst of all, the books in the Old Testament were frequently cited by apostles and evangelists such as Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul, in their writings.

On our end, we are confident that those seven books are not original parts of the Old Testament, are not divinely inspired, and are not canonical. Otherwise, they should have accepted and revered them even before 1546. This gives us the impression that prior to the declaration at the Council of Trent, those books were not accepted and revered by the Catholic Church, and its leaders were not sure if those seven books were authentic and divinely inspired. According to the Good News Bible preface, in 1546, more than one thousand five hundred (1,500) years after the Bible had been completed or after the books that were written by the apostles and evangelists had been included in the Bible, the Catholic Church came up with a declaration that the seven books that had been separated by Jerome were sacred and canonical, and they deserved to be accepted with equal devotion and reverence.

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