Why do some versions of the Bible omit 14 books?
Many Christian scholars make the error of omitting the Apocryphal. They fail to see that without the Apocryphal they have no way of verifying Daniel’s prophecies that dealt with the Greek and Roman kingdoms. This is why the Roman Catholic Bible is more complete. Shortly after Constantine made Christianity a state religion in 375 A.D., Pope Damasus, in 382, commissioned St. Jerome to translate the Latin Vulgate Bible. Prior to the Latin Bible, the Septuagint, a Greek Bible translated from Hebrew in the 3rd century B.C., was the universal Bible at that time. This version of the Bible, including both the Old and New Testaments and the 11 books of the Apocrypha, stood as the official Bible of the Roman Catholics for over a thousand years until the Reformation in 1517 A.D. Martin Luther protested against Catholicism and another council of men decided to take out the books of the Apocrypha. The omission of the book of Maccabees in the Protestant version is the primary point of this article.
