To: dollars_for_dogma
The Book of Maccabees explains that we are to pray for the souls of the faithful departed.The Jews of the Old Testament as well as modern Jews did/do not accept the Apocrapha as inspired writings...Why the Roman church does is beyond me...
40 posted on
06/29/2006 9:58:05 PM PDT by
Iscool
(I spent MOST of my MONEY on cold beer and hot women...The REST, I just wasted ...)
To: Iscool
And why you prefer a canon established in the year 85 by Pharisees who rejected Christ is beyond me. Luther, of his own authority, did it because it does support the doctrine of purgatory.
41 posted on
06/29/2006 10:01:25 PM PDT by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: Iscool
"The Jews of the Old Testament as well as modern Jews did/do not accept the Apocrapha as inspired writings...
The Jews did not/do not accept Jesus Christ as Messiah, either.
The Maccabees were a Jewish family (2d and 1st cent. B.C.) that helped restore Jewish religious and political life.
"Why the Roman church does is beyond me..."
You'll have to register your complaint with the Holy Spirit.
Nonetheless, Maccabees 1 & 2 are part of the Vulgate (and later eliminated from the protestant bible by Martin Luther).
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