Are there other books in the BIBLE that should be included in today's version of the BIBLE?
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I'm glad you asked this question.\n\nThere are several "apocryphal" books. Apocryphal is the word used that means basically "books that aren't concidered divinely inspired". These books were not excepted as scripture for two main reasons.\n1) As far as Old Testament books are concerned, books like "The Book of Enoch," "The Assumption of Moses" and "Odes of Soloman" amongst others, were never excepted even in Jesus' time by the Jews.\n2) In the New Testament, Jesus never refers to them in His teachings.\n\nI have read these books and you really have to take them with a grain of salt. There fantastic stories, but you cannot take them as you would what's in the Bible. I know that in the book of Jude he refers to a couple of them. But you need to realize that these "apocryphal" books do have truths in them, but they cannot be excepted as truth as a whole. Does that make sence? Jude was just pointing out a universal "absolute" truth that was mentioned in one of them.\n\nNow, beware, there are many New Testament "apocryphal" books too. "The Gospel of Thomas", "The Gospel of Mary Magdaline" and many others that are considered "gnostic" gospels. They were written decades after the supposed time the book itself says it was written. Besides that, they don't line up with what IS canonical. You really have to read the introductions the translaters make before you deside to read them.\n\nI do, however, have a recommendation. It is truly safe and helpful to read the writting of the "Early Church Father". This includes saints like Justin Martyr, Ignatious of Antioch, 1 Clement, 2 Clememt, (my favorite) Polycarp, all of these men were the disciples of the disciples and they have really alot of encouraging and helpful things to say about how church was when it was still a baby. \n\nThere is so much more that I would like to relay on this subject but I'm afraid that I'm taking to much of your time.  There is one other thing, for a good, easy reading book on the subject that will answer all of your questions I recommend a book called, "How we got the Bible" by Neil Lightfoot. You can find it at any Christian bookstore, and many secular bookstores too.
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There are many different translations of the Bible. Some things were left out while others were manufactured. As for my language only having 10 words, I don't think the word "computer" would be a part of it.
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Yes and one example is Jesus's life is absent in the bible from the age of 13 to the age of 33! big chunk of his life is missing there.\n\nOh and before I forget, here is the result of constant tampering and editing of the holy bible that conradicts itself enormously!\n\nTheological doctrines:\n\n1. God is satisfied with his works\nGen 1:31\nGod is dissatisfied with his works. \nGen 6:6\n2. God dwells in chosen temples\n2 Chron 7:12,16\nGod dwells not in temples\nActs 7:48\n3. God dwells in light\nTim 6:16\nGod dwells in darkness\n1 Kings 8:12/ Ps 18:11/ Ps 97:2\n4. God is seen and heard\nEx 33:23/ Ex 33:11/ Gen 3:9,10/ Gen 32:30/ Is 6:1/\nEx 24:9-11\nGod is invisible and cannot be heard\nJohn 1:18/ John 5:37/ Ex 33:20/ 1 Tim 6:16\n5. God is tired and rests\nEx 31:17/ Jer 15:6\nGod is never tired and never rests\nIs 40:28\n6. God is everywhere present, sees and knows all things\nProv 15:3/ Ps 139:7-10/ Job 34:22,21\nGod is not everywhere present, neither sees nor knows all \nthings\nGen 11:5/ Gen 18:20,21/ Gen 3:8\n7. God knows the hearts of men\nActs 1:24/ Ps 139:2,3\nGod tries men to find out what is in their heart\nDeut 13:3/ Deut 8:2/ Gen 22:12\n8. God is all powerful\nJer 32:27/ Matt 19:26\nGod is not all powerful\nJudg 1:19\n9. God is unchangeable\nJames 1:17/ Mal 3:6/ Ezek 24:14/ Num 23:19\nGod is changeable\nGen 6:6/ Jonah 3:10/ 1 Sam 2:30,31/ 2 Kings 20:1,4,5,6/ \nEx 33:1,3,17,14\n10. God is just and impartial\nPs 92:15/ Gen 18:25/ Deut 32:4/ Rom 2:11/ Ezek 18:25\nGod is unjust and partial\nGen 9:25/ Ex 20:5/ Rom 9:11-13/ Matt 13:12\n11. God is the author of evil\nLam 3:38/ Jer 18:11/ Is 45:7/ Amos 3:6/ Ezek 20:25\nGod is not the author of evil\n1 Cor 14:33/ Deut 32:4/ James 1:13\n12. God gives freely to those who ask\nJames 1:5/ Luke 11:10\nGod withholds his blessings and prevents men from receiving \nthem\nJohn 12:40/ Josh 11:20/ Is 63:17\n13. God is to be found by those who seek him\nMatt 7:8/ Prov 8:17\nGod is not to be found by those who seek him\nProv 1:28\n14. God is warlike\nEx 15:3/ Is 51:15\nGod is peaceful\nRom 15:33/ 1 Cor 14:33\n15. God is cruel, unmerciful, destructive, and ferocious\nJer 13:14/ Deut 7:16/ 1 Sam 15:2,3/ 1 Sam 6:19\nGod is kind, merciful, and good\nJames 5:11/ Lam 3:33/ 1 Chron 16:34/ Ezek 18:32/ Ps 145:9/ \n1 Tim 2:4/ 1 John 4:16/ Ps 25:8\n16. God's anger is fierce and endures long\nNum 32:13/ Num 25:4/ Jer 17:4\nGod's anger is slow and endures but for a minute\nPs 103:8/ Ps 30:5\n17. God commands, approves of, and delights in burnt offerings, \nsacrifices ,and holy days\nEx 29:36/ Lev 23:27/ Ex 29:18/ Lev 1:9\nGod disapproves of and has no pleasure in burnt offerings, \nsacrifices, and holy days.\nJer 7:22/ Jer 6:20/ Ps 50:13,4/ Is 1:13,11,12\n18. God accepts human sacrifices\n2 Sam 21:8,9,14/ Gen 22:2/ Judg 11:30-32,34,38,39\nGod forbids human sacrifice\nDeut 12:30,31\n19. God temps men\nGen 22:1/ 2 Sam 24:1/ Jer 20:7/ Matt 6:13\nGod temps no man\nJames 1:13\n20. God cannot lie\nHeb 6:18\nGod lies by proxy; he sends forth lying spirits t deceive\n2 Thes 2:11/ 1 Kings 22:23/ Ezek 14:9\n21. Because of man's wickedness God destroys him\nGen 6:5,7\nBecause of man's wickedness God will not destroy him\nGen 8:21\n22. God's attributes are revealed in his works.\nRom 1:20\nGod's attributes cannot be discovered\nJob 11:7/ Is 40:28\n23. There is but one God\nDeut 6:4\nThere is a plurality of gods\nGen 1:26/ Gen 3:22/ Gen 18:1-3/ 1 John 5:7\nMoral Precepts\n\n24. Robbery commanded\nEx 3:21,22/ Ex 12:35,36\nRobbery forbidden\nLev 19:13/ Ex 20:15\n25. Lying approved and sanctioned\nJosh 2:4-6/ James 2:25/ Ex 1:18-20/ 1 Kings 22:21,22\nLying forbidden\nEx 20:16/ Prov 12:22/ Rev 21:8\n26. Hatred to the Edomite sanctioned\n2 Kings 14:7,3\nHatred to the Edomite forbidden\nDeut 23:7\n27. Killing commanded\nEx 32:27\nKilling forbidden\nEx 20:13\n28. The blood-shedder must die\nGen 9:5,6\nThe blood-shedder must not die\nGen 4:15\n29. The making of images forbidden\nEx 20:4\nThe
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There is some evidence that there are hidden messages within the bible.  Primarily, however, we should always take the attitude that what the bible says plainly, is truth.\nThose who study it daily, find they agree more with others who study it daily, also.  It is the casual reader who finds a novel interpretation and doesn't evaluate it in light of other scripture, considered proper hermeneutics, that there is a problem.\n\nhttp://www.bible-researcher.com/biblical-interpretation.html
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At certain points in time, the "Church fathers" (as a group) determined which "books"/writing would be included in the Bible (New Testament). For whatever reason, certain writings were included and other were not.  This is the reason why there are additional "books" in the official Bible used by the Catholic Church--rather than the King James version--or those used by non-Catholic Christians.
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Check these out.\nhttp://etext.virginia.edu/kjv.browse.html\nhttp://www.audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
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I use KJV translated in the 1500's. Its the most accurate version to this day. you can find different translate dates at the link below.
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Please refer http://www.bible.com\n\nYou can also buy it there.
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The Catholics do have "extra" books in their bible.  We protestants call these books the apocrypha (which literally means "extra books")\n\nThey were not included in our Canon because we do not believe them to be the inspired Word of God.
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That depends upon your definition of "missing." There are a number of "books" which were deliberately excluded from the Bible and which many people now call "The Apocropha." These include such rejected "books" as The Book of Thomas and the new-found Book of Judas. Most of these books were rejected were because the leaders of the Catholic Church decided they contained "hereises" which contradicted what the church wanted people to believe.
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It is at Chapters. It's under the Religion and Spirtuality section with all the other christian and non-christian religious texts including "the bible".
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Not only that, but *originals* for the vast majority of books in the bible haven't existed for thousands of years.  All the translators have to work from are copies of copies of copies of copies...\nOh, but of course, we *know* that nobody made any errors, changes, or intentional additions or deletions when they made those hand-written copies, right? ;-)\n\nForget about the actual content, OF COURSE there are errors in just getting what's called the bible into your hands from the people who originally wrote the books.  Anyone who thinks there are no errors of any kind in the bible is very, very deluded.
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Not all Christian truth is in the Bible. A lot of Christian truth is made up of sacred tradition.
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For an interesting book on what got included in the Bible and what got changed read Misquoting Jesus : The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman. As for the many Vatican treasures you might want to take a look at the book In the Footsteps of Popes: A Spirited Guide to the Treasures of the Vatican by Enrico Bruschini. Happy reading.
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Nothing was "taken out" of the bible. Some things were left out, but they were never "in" to begin with. The bible is a hodge podge collection of writings from many different people. Not one of those people ever meant for or expected their writings to become part of a holy book. Some of them are freaking letters, ffs, written specifically from one person to another, not for the purpose of being scripture. One day a bunch of priests got together and decided that some of it was "the word of god™" and some of it not. How do decide what's "the word of god™" and what isn't, you ask? You don't. You do what they did and pick whatever suits your agenda (power, money) and leave out the rest.
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i found a bible search c link below\nhope u find what u need.\n:)\nit's 1 of my favourites.
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Good question.\nThe Christians should stick to THEIR Bible-- the new testament.