WHY PROTESTANT BIBLES ARE SMALLER

A Defense of the Protestant Old Testament Canon

De: Steve Christie

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

With over 600 references, "Why Protestant Bibles are smaller" defends the Protestant Old Testament canon using mostly Catholic resources including the Vatican, EWTN, Catholic Answers, and quotations from contemporary Catholic authors like Gary Michuta ("Why Catholic Bibles Are Bigger"), Jimmy Akin ("The Fathers Know Best"), and Trent Horn ("Why We're Catholic"). It utilizes the New Testament to demonstrate Jesus, His disciples, and the New Testament writers espoused to the books of the Protestant Old Testament. Using Christian and Jewish sources from antiquity, such as Eusebius' The Church History, it explains why the canonical lists from early church fathers, early church councils, and the books in the Septuagint, Vulgate, Douay-Rheims, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and even Popes and Cardinals were not identical, and what Jesus, His disciples, and the first century church actually believed about the canon. It includes comments from former Catholics and Eastern Orthodox on the authority of the Protestant Old Testament. It lists nearly 300 specific phrases used in the New Testament to describe Old Testament books, which are only found in the Protestant Old Testament. It concludes with examples of errors and contradictions in the books from the Catholic Old Testament to demonstrate those "extra books" are not "God-breathed" Scripture. This book assures the reader the Protestant Bible contains the complete Inspired Christian canon, which is why Protestant Bibles are smaller.

Inconsistent pronunciations.

It’s as if the author of this book, when using AI to generate the voice for the reading, completely forgot to listen to it before posting it to audible. There are so many mispronounced words which isn’t that bad until the AI reader pronounces the same word inconsistently (sometimes correctly, sometimes not) within the same sentences. The portions that reference Greek words, the reader painstakingly spells out the words, Greek letter by letter, including the footnote reference. For example “alpha gamma alpha pi eta 67”. All the Latin words are mispronounced as well.

Pronunciation problems aside, the author has some horrendously insane arguments. For example he concludes that the 66 book canon is correct because the book of Isaiah has 66 chapters. He somehow forgets that the chapter divisions aren’t original to the manuscripts and historically are a 13th century later addition. In addition, the 39 book division needed to get to a 66 book canon is a later Protestant tradition, the Jews held to a 22 and sometimes 24 book division and so the author is just making careless mistakes.

I can’t recommend this book, especially in audio format except for in the case that you want to listen to it to at least get his perspective.