[chuck_the_tv_out]

it depends how those books are translated. Once you’ve mastered the 66 books, then worry about the deuterocanon, IMO. I’ve read The Wisdom of Solomon, and I can certainly understand why it’s deuterocanonical. It sort of does the same thing Proverbs does - opening with a lot of writing about wisdom, and personifying wisdom in a literary kind of way, but then it goes too far, sort of deifying the personified wisdom. it totally felt wrong in my spirit.

Anyway that’s not the point. The point is, post this kind of thing on DU. Split their “protestants” from their “catholics”. It’s a disunity bomb. Posting it here is either retarded or worse.

[philly-d-kidder]

7 Books are Missing in the King James Bible.. a translation doesn’t do anything if they are Missing!Please ...

[stripes1776]

I’ve read The Wisdom of Solomon, and I can certainly understand why it’s deuterocanonical. It sort of does the same thing Proverbs does - opening with a lot of writing about wisdom, and personifying wisdom in a literary kind of way, but then it goes too far, sort of deifying the personified wisdom. it totally felt wrong in my spirit.

Well, that is interesting. I have never read the Wisdom of Solomon, but I have read that the early Church always interpreted wisdom in the Old Testament as the the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, that is to say as Christ in the Old Testament. If wisdom is deified, then that would make sense as the Logos revealing Himself in the Old Testament before the Incarnation.

I will try to read the Wisdom of Solomon this summer.