It's basically a more generalized variation of Judaism that draws out archetypal meaning from the Scriptural texts such as the Talmud, hence why you get teachings such as the Tree of Life.
"And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house." - Acts 16:30โญ-โฌ31 (KJV)
True. They actually count more books outside the Catholic Deuterocanon as inspired; and that's assuming that the Catholics don't already have some extra books of their own. I hold to the Baptist/Protestant canon, which only has Genesis-Malachi and Mathew-Revelation, excluding the Apocrypha.
