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Deuterocanon: These Books Are Scripture And Need To Be Defended

Deuterocanon: These Books Are Scripture And Need To Be Defended

Last updated on: November 16, 2020 at 10:20 am by William Hemsworth

Deuterocanon: These Books Are Scripture And Need To Be Defended 2020-11-16T10:20:20-07:00 William Hemsworth

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Last week I was honored to speak with Catholic speaker and apologist Gary Michuta about the Deuterocanon. He is the host of Hands on Apologetics which airs daily at 1:00pm EST on Virgin Most Powerful Radio.

Discussing The Deuterocanon

He is also the author of several books including “Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger” and “The Case For The Deuterocanon“. He also has a YouTube channel called “Apocrypha Apocalypse” where he goes into various issues on the Deuterocanon. In the interview we discuss what the Deuterocanon is and he answers some common objections about their canonicity. The books that we call deuterocanonical are the ones that Protestants call Apocrypha and they include Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (or, Sirach), and Baruch.

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It is a very informative interview. We need to defend scripture and Gary gives us great reasons why these books belong and how the Catholic church has always included them. Subscribe to Gary’s Youtube channel here. Also be sure to check out his radio program and website at handsonapologetics.com.

About Gary Michuta

Gary Michuta has been a popular speaker on Catholic apologetics and evangelization for more than twenty years. Through parish talks, seminars, and online classes he has helped hundreds of Catholics better understand and explain their Faith.

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Gary Michuta

Gary is a former editor of Hands On Apologetics Magazine and has written five books, including How to Wolf-Proof Your Kids, Why Catholic Bibles are Bigger, Making Sense of Mary, and The Case for the Deuterocannon.

He also writes the award-winning column Behind the Bible for the Michigan Catholic newspaper. Gary teaches middle-and high-school-level apologetics courses online for Homeschool Connections.

The Interview With Gary Michuta

To listen to the podcast version of the interview click here.

Below is the interview on YouTube. Don’t forget to like and subscribe. I thank you all for your support. I am praying for you all.

This issue is important because it is about the Bible. Our Protestant friends are missing books that Christians had in the Bible for centuries.

Saint Quotes

A classic objection to these books is that St. Jerome rejected them. However by 400Ad he accepted them and even quotes them as scripture. Here are a couple such quotes.

Does not the Scripture say: ‘Burden not thyself above thy power’?– Jerome, To Eustochium, Epistle 108

Jerome quotes this from Sirach 13:2.

What sin have I committed if I followed the judgment of the churches? But he who brings charges against me for relating the objections that the Hebrews are wont to raise against the Story of Susanna, the Song of the Three Children, and the story of Bel and the Dragon, which are not found in the Hebrew volume, proves that he is just a foolish sycophant. For I was not relating my own personal views, but rather the remarks that they [the Jews] are wont to make against us.-St. Jerome (Against Rufinus, 11:33 [AD 402]).

Here he is defending the additions to Daniel in the Deuterocanon as scripture. In addition, in his vulgate translation Jerome recognized that the council of Nicea listed Judith as canonical.

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