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Sam Shamoun walks a couple through why Protestant Bibles have 66 books while Catholic Bibles have 73, tracing the disagreement back to the Council of Florence affirming the larger canon and Martin Luther later rejecting seven books, the deuterocanonicals, because they conflicted with his theology, particularly on praying for the dead. He explains that Jerome originally excluded these books because the Jews of his time rejected them, unaware that the 1947 discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed Jews before and during Christ's life actually read and accepted a wider range of texts, including Enoch, Sirach, Tobit, and the letter of Jeremiah. Sam traces the Jewish rejection of these books to Rabbi Akiva in the second century, reacting against Christian use of them, not because the books were inauthentic but because they were more recent and easier to dismiss than older prophetic writings like Zechariah or Malachi. He walks through 2 Maccabees 12:39-45 in detail, showing that Judas Maccabeus prayed for and offered a sin sacrifice on behalf of dead Jewish soldiers found wearing forbidden pagan idols, a passage explicitly praised as "holy and pious" precisely because it demonstrated belief in the resurrection, which became the exact text that troubled Martin Luther enough to question the canon. Sam closes by pointing out that even Luther's own German Bible and the King James Version kept these books included well into the 1800s, and that Luther similarly downgraded New Testament books like Hebrews, James, and Revelation, showing that doubting a book's canonicity historically was never treated as settled proof against it. Timestamps📌 0:00 Why Protestant and Catholic Bibles have different numbers of books 5:00 The Dead Sea Scrolls and what they reveal about the Jewish canon 9:11 2 Maccabees 12:39-45 and praying for the dead 15:00 Why Martin Luther kept these books despite rejecting their inspiration Like 👍 Share to Other Christian Brother & Sisters ❤️ ✅Subscribe Subscribe to ​⁠​⁠Shamounian Sam Shamouns Articles to Help with Christian / Islam objections https://answeringislam.blog/690ca956ea00a60f4925c2c7-2/ https://answering-islam.org Support the Channel by helping put out videos more consistently and with more topics for all christians ❤️🙏 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6uIGfgTH4x4360B0RDl4hg/join Tiktok where i repost other clips: https://www.tiktok.com/@islam_to_jesuschrist?_t=ZP-8zjalwdkjnC&_r=1 Tiktok BackUp: https://www.tiktok.com/@islam_to_jesuschrist2?_r=1&_t=ZP-97GQXc80oow Instagram where i also post clips: https://www.instagram.com/shamounianexplains?igsh=enJ4YTB5ejVuc3B5&utm_source=qr #samshamoun #bible #christian