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  • #46
    Originally posted by Cath
    And Moss sorry, Marian Traditions are off the table
    Why?


    Securely anchored to the Rock amid every storm of trial, testing or tribulation.

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    • #47
      Originally posted by Boxing Pythagoras View Post
      No, they most certainly do consider the deuterocanonical books to be divinely inspired scripture. From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

      Source: Catechism of the Catholic Church

      120 It was by the apostolic Tradition that the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books.

      This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as one) and 27 for the New.

      The Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zachariah and Malachi.

      121 The Old Testament is an indispensable part of Sacred Scripture. Its books are divinely inspired and retain a permanent value, for the Old Covenant has never been revoked.

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      Emphasis added.
      But not, alas, 1 Enoch. Ecclesiasticus is good though. An alternative way of getting 45 books is to count The Letter of Jeremy as chapter 6 of Baruch.

      45 OT books
      27 NT books
      equals 72 books. Which is easy to remember because 27 is 72 reversed; the difference being the number of OT books. It also helps that 72 crops up in the Bible.

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