Why does the Mormon Church not accept the apocryphal books in the Latin Vulgate?
Dear Gramps, Why do we not accept all of the canonized books of the Vulgate bible? Do we actually use a protestant version of the bible? Why did we exclude some of the books the Catholic church accepts? Rebecca, from Raleigh, North Carolina Dear Rebecca, The parts of the Latin Vulgate (or the Douay-Rheims Version, which is the English translation of the Latin Vulgate) which are not accepted by the Mormon Church, and many other Christian denominations, are called the Apocrypha. The word, apocrypha, means writings or statements of dubious authenticity. The etymology of the word relates to ‘things hidden away,’ which implies secret or esoteric literature. In some Protestant Bibles, the apocryphal books are placed between the New and Old Testaments. In the Roman Catholic Bibles they are interspersed with the rest of the text. Jerome, in 450 AD, rejected the Apocrypha when he was translating the Bible into Latin This was because no Hebrew version of these texts could be found, even though t
