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Roman Catholic AnswerBecause they were told by Martin Luther and John Calvin that the Old Testament canon was closed before these books were written. That the New Testament provides no support for the Deuterocanon and that it supports the closed Old Testament canon. "All of these claims are not true - a fact that may be firmly established by a careful and unbiased examination of the historical record and the other evidence at hand." This evidence is supplied convincingly in Gary G. Michuta's book, Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger. The fact that two men who wanted to start their own church based solely on the Bible would start out by stripping books from the Bible that had been in use by the Christian Church for fifteen centuries should certainly raise questions about their credibility, and the credibility of the teaching. Read Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger, it is completely unbiased, and completely historical, quoting all of the relevant authorities on the Bible throughout the centuries, including the very same ones that Calvin and Luther quote.
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