#296 “Adding” the Deuterocanonicals - Jimmy Akin

DAY 296 CHALLENGE “Catholics violate the prohibition against adding to Scripture (Rev. 22:18–19) by including the Apocrypha (what Catholics call the deuterocanonicals) in their Bibles.” DEFENSE The passage in question does not mean what is supposed, and if it did, it would create a problem for Protestants. The passage in Revelation states: “I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in t...