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"Martin Luther unilaterally removed seven books from the Bible" -------------------------------------------------------------------- FYI: "An obvious sign that someone has not read anything about Luther and the canon is the assertion, “Luther removed books from the Bible,” or “Luther removed books from the New Testament.” It is a simple historical fact that Luther’s translation of the Bible contained all of its books. Luther began translating the New Testament in 1521, and released a finished version in 1522. He published sections of the Old Testament as he finished them. He finished the entire Bible by 1534. During these years, various incomplete editions were released. Some Protestants might be surprised to learn that Luther also translated the Apocrypha. The editors of Luther’s Works explain, “In keeping with early Christian tradition, Luther also included the Apocrypha of the Old Testament. Sorting them out of the canonical books, he appended them at the end of the Old Testament with the caption, ‘These books are not held equal to the Scriptures, but are useful and good to read.’”[9]" http://tquid.sharpens.org/Luther_%20canon.htm#a2 "subtracted verses from others, and changed the wording of yet more." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Aha! So maybe it was Luther who wrote in the Angel of the Lord teaching and recommending witchcraft: Tob 6 [2] Then the young man went down to wash himself. A fish leaped up from the river and would have swallowed the young man; [3] and the angel said to him, "Catch the fish." So the young man seized the fish and threw it up on the land. [4] Then the angel said to him, "Cut open the fish and take the heart and liver and gall and put them away safely." [5] So the young man did as the angel told him; and they roasted and ate the fish. And they both continued on their way until they came near to Ecbatana. [6] Then the young man said to the angel, "Brother Azarias, of what use is the liver and heart and gall of the fish?" [7] He replied, "As for the heart and liver, if a demon or evil spirit gives trouble to any one, you make a smoke from these before the man or woman, and that person will never be troubled again. [8] And as for the gall, anoint with it a man who has white films in his eyes, and he will be cured." Ah, how sad! For how many years have you been burning fish guts and anointing people with it on the basis of Luther's mistranslation? I bet it was Luther who also mushed up history here and retranslated Judith like so: Judith 1:5, “Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor, king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninve the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him.” Everyone knows Nubuchadnezzer was king of Babylon and ruled there, NOT in Ninveh as the King of Assyria. Silly Luther, messing up the Romanist Apocrypha!!! He must have struck again in Baruch when he changed "70 years" to 7 GENERATIONS: Baruch 6:2, “And when you are come into Babylon, you shall be there many years, and for a long time, even to seven generations: and after that I will bring you away from thence with peace.” Everyone knows it was 70 years! How many years have you been confused about this thanks to Luther's revision? Ohhh, and here's another one. He wrote this into Maccabees to get us to mistrust the information in it! "I also will here make an end of my narration. Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is what I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me" (2 Maccabees 15:28, 39) Wow, what CANONICAL SCRIPTURE (cuz the Roman Church declared that that's what they are) would declare it might have ERRORS? Obviously this was evil Luther's doing!!! "for why else do we have so many denominations?" ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, like the Roman Catholic Church. How come they split off from "Pope" Gregory and the other Bishops to declare the primacy of ROME over everybody? "Without confidence given to us by an authority divinely granted," ----------------------------------------------------------------- Oops, there's no reason to be confident about the Roman authority of a Pope who is a murderer and adulterer gets killed because he was caught in bed with another man's wife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XII I'm going to have to trust the Word of God on this one and "study to shew [myself] approved" instead of letting Rome do my thinking for me (2 Tim 2:15).