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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Sorry, that is where did Luther get the authority TO change the bible...
16 posted on 03/16/2004 3:12:52 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
...where did Luther get the authority to change the Bible?

Assuming that this questions is asked in good faith, rather than to flame 500 years of internecine dispute, Luther didn't change the Bible.

1) The Jewish faith recognizes the same 39 books comprising the Protestant Old Testament as being Scriptural; it does not recognize the books of the Apocrypha as being Scritural.

2) Christ never quoted any of the books of the Apocrypha (and, therefore, in the Protestant view, must not have considered them Scriptural).

3) Luther broke with the Church in 1521; the content of the Catholic Bible wasn't finalized until the Council of Trent in 1546.

The Lutheran Church doesn't consider the books of Maccabbees to be inaccurate history, we just don't believe them to be inspired Scripture.

44 posted on 03/16/2004 3:36:09 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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