**Maccabees - which was not accepted Scripture **
Not in the Protestant Bible
But in the Catholic Bible. Luther took it out for this very reason.
Of course in the "Catholic Bible"! How else to make up the doctrine? And Luther did not "take it out", it was not part of the accepted Old Testament in either Jewish or early Christian tradition. Luther - who I do not accept as infallible, nor do the Lutherans, BTW - placed the Deuterocanonical books in a separate section.
LOL Sal, Luther did not "remove it" the jews , that were the oracles of God for the OT NEVER had it in their canon as inspired ..the Catholic church ADDED it as it was the only book that spoke of prayers for the dead . Even St Jerome did not have it in the inspired part of the canon, he had in a separate reading section
God never gave the NT church permission to change or add to the scriptures He gave to the Jews.. it may make you feel good to blame everything on Luther.. but the Protestants have the same canon as the Jews..
Maccabees was not an official part of the RC canon til trent declared it so.. and that just might have something to do with Luther outing the abuse of indulgences