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Martin Luther chucked 7 books from the God’s Holy Word during the Protestant Rebellion. These books were:
Tobit
Judith
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Wisdom
Sirach
Baruch
as well as...
parts of Esther
parts of Daniel
But, why he decided to remove whole books from the Holy Bible?, and how he chose the 7 he did?, and how he felt that he had the authority to do something like that?, I have no clue. It’s just one more reason that I stick with Christ’s Church - the Catholic Church.
“...why he decided to do that I have no clue...”
Martin Luther chucked 2 Maccabees 12:46 because it references purgatory. He threw out anything that he felt questioned his faith alone (sola fida) error.
The books were then found with the Dead Sea scrolls proving Martin Luther made a grave error in his “editing” of the bible omitting the so called apocrypha.
To know history is to cease to be protestant.
Martin Luther was an improperly formed failed Augustinian monk.
Data from Yahoo - posted by a yahoo.
(You can’t make this stuff up!)