I think the real issue is not the [font="arial][size="2"]Deuterocanonical books being included in the Catholic Bible; it's the fact that Luther rejected all of them along with James (too reliant on works), Hebrews (questioned authorship), and Revelation (written too late and too controversial) - he also added the word 'alone' after the word faith in order to support his doctrine of sola fide. The fact is Protestants almost lost 3 books of the NT and added a word to scripture - I think they dodged a bullet. Also, I think we could have very easily been here today listening to a defense of why those three books are not scripture, just like the Deuterocanonical books.[/size][/font]
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[font="arial][size="2"]As far as Jerome rejecting the Deuterocanonical books - his decision was based on the idea that they possessed no copies of the books in Hebrew at the time. This has changed since we found the Dead Sea Scrolls.[/size][/font]
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[font="arial][size="2"]As far as Jerome rejecting the Deuterocanonical books - his decision was based on the idea that they possessed no copies of the books in Hebrew at the time. This has changed since we found the Dead Sea Scrolls.[/size][/font]