And our answer was silly. Fact is Martin Luther, after over a thousand years of all Christianity using the same Bible, decided that there were parts of 7 books that didn't fit with the heresy of justification through faith alone. So, after a thousand years, he chucked 'em.
Do you honestly think that any Trad Cath with a modicum if catechism, hasn't heard the arguments before about why Maccabees, or Tobit, etc. were thrown out of the Bible, after over a thousand years?
It's because they interfered with what Martin Luther believed. Bottom line.
It really is a slippery slope. Plenty of Christians want to remove those passages by Paul about women being subordinate to their husbands. What's to stop the next Luther from doing so? Your indignation?
And I corrected your misconception with a detailed explanation in this video (which you choose to be ignorant of) https://odysee.com/@ibc:82/1611-king-james-bible-the-apocrypha:8
And our answer was silly. Fact is Martin Luther, after over a thousand years of all Christianity using the same Bible, decided that there were parts of 7 books that didn't fit with the heresy of justification through faith alone. So, after a thousand years, he chucked 'em.
Bottom line. No way around it.
How can you judge a matter without hearing it first? That is the really absurd thing.
Do you honestly think that any Trad Cath with a modicum if catechism, hasn't heard the arguments before about why Maccabees, or Tobit, etc. were thrown out of the Bible, after over a thousand years?
It's because they interfered with what Martin Luther believed. Bottom line.
It really is a slippery slope. Plenty of Christians want to remove those passages by Paul about women being subordinate to their husbands. What's to stop the next Luther from doing so? Your indignation?