[Salvation]

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5, ESV)

[Salvation]

Catholic Ping!

[cloudmountain]

The Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are NOT identical.

During the Reformation [started by defrocked and excommunicated Father Martin Luther] for largely doctrinal reasons Protestants removed seven books from the Old Testament

1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Sirach
Wisdom
Baruch
Tobit
Judith and

parts of two others (Daniel and Esther),

even though these books had been regarded as canonical since the beginning of Church history.

My Protestant friend, with whom I'm spending Christmas, and I examined our Bibles and discovered this eons ago. We never did know what "doctrinal reasons" made the Protestants do that. We still don't know.

Imagine, the BOOK OF WISDOM deleted from the Bible.

[cloudmountain]

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. (Psalms 139:13-14, ESV)

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I say this every day when I see the glory of God's creation: the dawn, sunset, ocean, stars, doggies...all wonders of God's creation.