Well it WAS one of Martin Luther’s beef with the Catholic Church... And the book of Tobit, that tacitly allows for indulgences, is included in the Catholic Bible but not the Protestant one.
Also, it is implied that only the rulers can provide salvation and redemption. The “rulers” have inserted themselves between the believers and God.
IMHO, this is wrong.
“And the book of Tobit, that tacitly allows for indulgences, is included in the Catholic Bible but not the Protestant one.”
Because Martin Luther cut it out.
It’s in Eastern Orthodox Bibles.
As if one should believe such a fantastic tale. Being about a women, Sarah, who has lost seven husbands because Asmodeus, the demon of lust, and "the worst of demons," abducts and kills every man she marries on their wedding night before the marriage can be consummated!
And about a man, Tobias, who was sleeping with his eyes open while birds dropped dung into in his eyes (sound sleeper!) and blinded him. And who later is attacked by a fish leaping out of the river to devour him! But Raphael has him capture it and later he burns the fish’s liver and heart to drive away the demon Asmodeus away to Upper Egypt [let the Coptics deal with him?], enabling Tobias and Sarah to finally consummate his marriage.
Which is besides Tobit 12:9, “almsgiving delivers from death, and it will purge away every sin.”
And not the Jewish one either, despite the claim that it is Hebrew scripture.
Remember, in the 1611 King James the Apocrypha was in those original additions but they were never considered scripture, they were considered history because the Jews considered them history. The Jews never thought they were scripture either.