How did the Catholic Church add to the Bible?

She did not add to the bible after She closed the canon in the 4th century. The Catholic Church, in a council of about 400 bishops chose which books were to be placed in the canon fromm many manuscripts that were extant at the time. Some were gnostic, some were pious forgeries, some were out right heresy. By the power of the Holy Spirit, the Church came up with the bible. The Jews of the time accepted the LXX, septuagint. They never closed their canon until well into the Christian era at the council of Jamnia. By then, they already had an axe to grind with Christianity. To suppose that the Church added the 7 books in the 16th century is foolish. The council of Trent is when She reaffirmed the ancient canon in the face of the reformers abridgment Pax Christi

The Orthodox Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic church were one church -- the Catholic church, as the early church fathers called the church that Christ started -- for the first 1000 years of Christianity. It was this united body in its western and eastern forms that selected and preserved the writings we know as the Holy Bible today. The deuterocanonical ("second canon") books commonly called the Apocrypha were part of the church's scripture from the beginning (in fact, the Orthodox Church recognizes a couple more books in the second canon). The larger canon was received and used as we know it long before the Council of Trent confirmed the whole canon, and the Reformers published a stripped-down canon.

The history is quite clear; those who claim that the Roman church added to the scriptures cannot explain why the Eastern Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox have the same canon (except the OO have even a couple more than the EO). It would have taken a miracle indeed to convince all the independent Orthodox Churches (Greek, Russian, Serbian, Antiochian, Alexandrian, Bulgarian, Romanian...) to *add* to the scriptures, especially at the suggestion of Rome. ;-)

Most intelligent people know that the Protestants after the Reformation removed books from the bible that had for 1500 yrs was a equal part of the Bible by the Catholic Church and Orthodox Church with about the only book in question and was hotly debated over it's authenticity was Revelation. For 99% of most Protestants the Christian world and Bible has only existed for 500 yrs with a short 33+ yr period of Christ life and the Years of the Original Apostles which only the Catholic and Orthodox actually experienced.

Many Protestants believe this because their Pastors do a very good job at Eisegesis, but a horrible job at Exegesis. As such, they pull out what they think in means when they read Bible verses.

Many of the Churches teachings conflict with how they want to live their lives, taking the "easier" route. So when you hear a lot of people speaking non-sense, you want to jump on the ban-wagon. But really, any true study of the early Church and the Church Fathers would easily reveal the Truth found in the Catholic Church... who was directly commissioned by Jesus Himself to carry out HIS Church...

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They explain it through revisionist history. Fortunately, that doesn't hold up in educational institutions (even the secular ones).

**here's an example of revisionist history: "The catholic church added 7 apochriphals about 1500 a.D, that is, 2000 years after the Old Testament canon was already closed by the prophets of Israel, in 500 before Christ."

When I say "they", of course the ones who accuse the Church of adding to the Bible.

, the bible was put together under the guidance of the holy spirit and accepted by all up to the 15th. century.

the church has never added any extra books

revelation 22:18-19 will explain what will happen when the truth is badly treated

The Protestant groups dropped the Deuterocanonicals because they contradicted their rejection of prayers for the dead and the intercession of deceased sainbts(in 1&2 Maccabees)

The Orthodox Churches always accepted the Deuterocanonicals long before the Protestants came along

You are wasting your time asking these protestants, because their evolution on the bible is interpreted in a way to explain their break-a-way thinking' from the true church.and the doctrine thinking is responsible by their leaders.

Oh come on how we all know most Christian's are ignorant to church history.