I never knew this. The Vatican removed one of the ten commandments!
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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?