Preservation and Canon
Apocrypha Rejected
Bibliology · 6 verses
The deuterocanonical books, lacking divine inspiration and apostolic endorsement, do not belong to the canon of Scripture. These writings, while potentially useful for historical understanding, contain doctrinal errors and were never part of the Hebrew canon received by Christ and the apostles. The Protestant church rightly follows the Jewish and apostolic canon, rejecting Rome's addition of the Apocrypha at Trent.
Scripture References
“And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.”
“Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.”
“And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.”
“And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”
“This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:”
“That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.”