Hogwash. You just hate Martin Luther for the sake of hating someone.
Horsefeathers!!!!! Thats just plain ridiculous, I don't hate Martin Luther or anyone esle for that matter.
What is wrong with you? You endeavor to use a faulty translation to impeach another translation. Show from the Greek where the text is in error but be prepared to have your text submitted to the same standard.
Frivolous remarks. Romanism did not preserve the true text of the bible. Israel had the OT long before anyone even knew of Romanism. The books removed from Rome's version of the bible were removed because of historical and doctrinal errors. Contradictions within the books and with other books that are above reproach cause their removal not Martin Luther.
The only thing that wrong notuptome, is you being reluctant in accepting history. I relize that sometimes the truth hurts..... but it don't change the the fact that history is what it is, even if we don't like it. Shown by the following:
The canon of
Scripture is the list of 73 books that belong to the Bible. (The word "Bible" means "the Book.") The earliest writings of the Bible were likely composed in the 10th century B.C. The writing of Scripture continued until the first century A.D., when Revelation was complete.
Seven
books of the Bible, all in the Old Testament, are accepted by Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, but are not accepted by Jews or
Protestants. These include 1 and 2 Maccabees, Judith, Tobit, Baruch, Sirach, and Wisdom, and additions to the books of Esther and Daniel. These books are called Deuterocanonical by Catholics and Orthodox and Apocryphal by Jews and Protestants. These were the last books of the Old Testament written, composed in the last two centuries B.C. Their omission in Protestant Bibles leaves a chronological gap in salvation history.
The version of the Bible in use at the time of Jesus was the Septuagint (abbreviated LXX, for the 70 men who translated it from Hebrew into Greek by the beginning of the first century B.C.). This version of the Bible included the seven Deuterocanonical books. This was the version of the Old Testament used by the New Testament authors and by Christians during the first century A.D.
With the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70 A.D. and because the Christians were seen as a threat, the Jewish leaders saw a need to get their house in order. One thing that they did was to decide officially the list of books that were to compose their Scriptures. They did this at the Council of Jamnia (about 100 A.D.), at which they rejected the seven Deuterocanonical books because they believed that they were not written in Hebrew. (In 1947, however, fragments in Hebrew of Tobit and Sirach were discovered among the
Dead Sea Scrolls. In addition, most Scripture scholars believe that 1 Maccabees, Judith, Baruch and parts of Wisdom were also originally written in Hebrew.) The early Church did not require all Scripture to be written in Hebrew, and the New Testament books were written in Greek.
The early Church continued to accept the books of the LXX version, although some debate about these books continued through the 5th century. This list, as accepted by the Catholic Church, was affirmed by the Council of Hippo in 393 A.D., by the Council of Carthage in 397 A.D., and by Pope Innocent I in 405 A.D. At the Ecumenical Council of Florence in 1442, the Catholic list was again restated, against those who wanted to include even more books.
In the 16th century, Martin Luther adopted the Jewish list, putting the Deuterocanonical books in an appendix. He also put the letter of James, the letter to the Hebrews, the letters of John, and the book of Revelation from the New Testament in an appendix. He did this for doctrinal reasons (for example: 2 Maccabees 12:43-46 supports the doctrine of purgatory, Hebrews supports the existence of the priesthood, and James 2:24 supports the
Catholic doctrine on merit). Later Lutherans followed Luther’s Old Testament list and rejected the Deuterocanonical books, but they did not follow his rejection of the New Testament books.
Finally, in 1546, the Council of Trent reaffirmed the traditional list of the Catholic Church. ---EWTN
You are very religious but no man can will himself to be a Christian.
Alas...... here again you are being reluctant in accepting history....... the history of Christianity. The name "Christian" predates all of your thousands of differnt Protestant and Evangelical Churches by over a millennium. For those of you who think that Catholics are not Christian may be surprised to learn you accept the authority of several Catholic councils every time you pick up your Bible. The Bible didn't fall out of the sky notuptome, spiral bound with a KJV printed on it. It has a very rich Catholic history
Once again.....If you were to spent some time studying the Early Church Fathers, it would be made crystal clear that early Christian beliefs were Catholic.
Pax Christi
