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What books of the original Bible did King James exclude from his Bible?

I heard that there are other books by other people that are not in the modern bible today.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    What you have heard is not wrong...but in fact it was not King James who removed those Scriptures from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible. Here is more detail:

    http://www.bibleselector.com/r_kjv.html

    As described on that web page, there are still KJV Bibles that include the Apocrypha just as did most editions of the KJV until about 1800. The KJV Apocrypha is also available online, of course:

    http://www.biblestudytools.com/apocrypha/kjva/

    Note that it is Bible publishers - and not King James - that excludes those Scriptures from most modern editions of the KJV.

    - Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

  • grnlow
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    The way your question is framed, it reads like you do not understand the King James Version is only one of many translations of the Bible. Their were a few done in English prior to the King James and literally a thousand since. Most all of these are using the same books and letters. These are the inspired word of God, written by about 40 men used as secretaries. With only one Author.

    Do you not think that the One who easily creates billions of suns can also protect his words for humanity? While at times God has used false religious people to do his will, like assembly of those 66 books and letters together, he himself has protected it. In the last 2,000 years, hundreds of attempts have been made by those under Satan's control to try to destroy it. Hitler was only one of many. They have all failed.

    That is an indication those so-called "lost books" have nothing to do with God's words but everything to do with Satan's hopes and desires. These are those that try to deny the truths found in the 66 God-inspired books. Ignorant or weak minded ones easily fall victim to these. Those that were never told any of the Bible truths, which is most of the world's population, and never bothered to ask nor find out for themselves or just to lazy to do this--are easy to accept whatever someone else tells them.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    He didn't exclude any of them.

    There are indeed other books. While we have thousand upon thousands of copies and fragments of copies of various Biblical manuscripts, we have very few (often just one or two) copies of other documents. That's significant.

    The early church copied and shared those books that they thought were divinely inspired. That so many copies of the Biblical books have survived and so few of competing texts have been found shows that the early followers of Jesus didn't consider these books to be scriptural.

    Most of these books were written hundreds of years later. For instance, the supposed "Gospel of Thomas" exists in just two copies. It dates conclusively from about the third century A.D., well after Thomas was dead. The book purports to be written by a Jewish follower of Jesus, but the author doesn't know anything about first century burial customs in Jerusalem, and makes references to third century practices in and around Turkey. It's clearly a forgery and has no business being included with texts that come from eyewitnesses to Jesus' life.

    Other books are the same, including at least one that appears to be a modern forgery, the Secret Gospel of Peter.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    The KJV, which many Christians claim is the 'Divine Word of God' was a hastily written politically correct translation which was meant to help secure a homosexual ex-Catholic Scottish King's claim to the English Protestant throne. It is no more than a 17th Century edit of previous 16th Century translations of about 8,000 contradictory copies of 4th Century scrolls which claim to be copies of lost documents written in the 1st Century

  • 8 years ago

    ALL 66 BOOKS OF THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD ARE PRESENT OTHER books exist but are not part of the Inspired word of God and thus are rightly left out of all good Bibles

    Source(s): the Bible history Archeology lexicography
  • 8 years ago

    it was marttin luther ,

    tobit

    judith

    maccabees 1/2

    wisdom

    ecclesiasticus

    baruch

    plus chapters of daniel and esther

    the church did not reject these books, because the original 73 books are in the gutenberg bible the very first printed, a century before the reformation

  • 8 years ago

    I really hope that you do study this information for yourself instead of going by inaccurate hearsay.

    It's really important if you are a christian or even a person interested in obtaining an accurate knowledge of history that you get the facts and know the truth.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQ_W6-tb84

  • 8 years ago

    First Book of Nephi

    Second Book of Nephi

    Book of Jacob

    Book of Enos

    Book of Jarom

    Book of Omni

    Book of Mosiah

    Book of Alma

    Book of Helaman

    Third Nephi

    Fourth Nephi

    Book of Ether

    Book of Moroni

  • 8 years ago

    It was the early Orthodox and catholic church that excluded books from the official cannon.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    The "Apocrypha."

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