What books of the Catholic Bible Do Protestants reject?
Protestants reject the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament as being not divinely inspired. Although Martin Luther and other Reformation leaders also rejected the New Testament deuterocanon, they ultimately retained these New Testament books in the Protestant version of the Bible. Luther and other Protestant leaders rejected many Church teachings and Traditions. Their rejection of the deuterocanonical books allowed them to claim that the disputed doctrines had no basis in Scripture — their new canon of Scripture! (A Catholic group called Catholics United for the Faith (CUF) has two excellent articles about this topic. The first describes how the canon of the books of the Catholic Bible was defined. The second article describes this history in more detail, including Luther’s use of the term Apocrypha to cast a bad light on the Old Testament deuterocanon.) The canon used by Christ Catholics don’t think of the deuterocanon as “extra” books of the Catholic Bible! To Catholics, it’s
