Yep. Nothing new about that.
Then why are they not published in the Bible in the stores?
Which stores? Complete, 72 book Bibles are trivially easy to find, and not at all expensive. They can even be had online for free. Perhaps the you should challenge whatever stores there are that only sell 66 book abridged Bibles to quit trying to hide the complete Bible.
If they are so powerfully better what man would hoard them to himself?
Another good question. But we are truly blessed that some folks do NOT hoard them, sell paper copies cheaply, and even give them away at no charge.
Any such church that would willfully keep the Bible from man, is not a church but a power seeking organization.
With that, I agree. Fortunately, there are plenty of folks willing to sell or give you a complete Bible. I guess those would be true Churches.
I hope this has been of some assistance to you.
Yet, I do not respect the religion for the following reasons:
-It installs one man on earth as above all other men. I do not find that in “my” Bible.
-It handles its masses in Latin - knowing that the people do not understand.
-It creates saints that the members pray to. I only pray to God.
-It creates Mary as a sacred being worthy of being prayed to. I find nothing in my Bible that tells us to pray to saints or Mary.
-It appears immersed in a love of wealth, pageantry, with the power in the hands of exalted men ruling over the lives of the ordinary. This emphasis on opulence and wealth is foreign to me when trying to follow Jesus. I did not see Jesus involved in any obsession of wealth.
I do not deny that there are some wonderful people in the history and members. And there are many decisions and statements that I respect. Overall, I feel the people are praying to idols, praying to men as “saints” and seeking forgiveness for their sins from men - not God.
So many things that I cannot overlook as I do not find a basis for the practices in the Bible.