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,This one was actually my fault, I forgot that the Council of Trent was brought forth by the Protestant Reformation and not vice versa
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The '''Bible''' is the collection of documents acknowledged by Christians to be inspired by God. The Protestant Bible contains 66 books (Catholic and Orthodox contain 73, while the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible recognizes the most books: 81 in total) and is divided into the [[Old Testament]] and the [[New Testament]]. It tells of the story of the [[creation]] of the universe and [[man]] by [[God]], the rebellion of man against God and his rescue plan for humanity through his Son, [[Jesus Christ]].
===[[Books of the Bible]]===
====[[Old Testament]]====
The Old Testament tells the story of ancient Israel and God'''Bible Versions s intervention in their history. There are three main sections that make up the wiki'''* [[King James Version]]* [[BibleOld Testament - The Books of the Law, EnglishHistory and Poetry, World English|and the Books of the Prophets. The World English Bible]]* [[books of the Law tell the very early story of the history of Israel and lay out the covenant or agreement between God and his people with their laws for living. The American Standard Version|American Standard Version Bible]]* [[Updated King James Version|Updated King James Version]]* [[Translation Projects:Urban Slang Version (2005 edition)]]books of history and poetry continue the story of the people of Israel starting with their invasion into Canaan and ending with their kingdom splitting into two and being conquered and exiled. The books of the prophets describe some of the visions and words of the prophets who continually called the people to account for their abandonment of God.
====[[New Testament]]====
====Extra-Biblical texts - [[Apocrypha]]====
Protestants generally point to the fact that [[Jesus Christ]] did not approve of the 46 canonical books used in the Old Testament, neither did He ever quote from the additional 7 apocryphal books. Catholic and Orthodox Christians place less value on Scripture and instead Tradition which is why this fact doesn't seemingly bother either of those Christian branches.
Though the Early Church used the Old Testament, the apostles did not otherwise leave a defined set of new scriptures; instead the New Testament developed over time. All New Testament scripture was wrote during the first century AD. By the fourth century the books included by today's Protestants in the [[Bible]] were roughly agreed upon and officially in 382 AD, the [[Council of Rome]] was held which canonized the Bible as having 66 total books: 39 in the Old Testament (which the Jews agreed upon in the 4th century BC), and 27 in the New Testament.
===[[Translating the Bible]]===
In the first few centuries after Christ the Bible was translated into a few other ancient languages (for example [[Latin]]) but it wasn't until the Protestant [[Reformation]] that widespread translation of the Bible into many languages (such as German and English) really began to occur.