{"id":812,"date":"2011-04-08T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/04\/because-martin-luther-threw-this-out-of-the-bible\/"},"modified":"2015-06-07T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T04:36:12","slug":"because-martin-luther-threw-this-out-of-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2011\/04\/because-martin-luther-threw-this-out-of-the-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"Because Martin Luther Threw This Out of the Bible?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-9XknH9J5GUI\/TZ9Bo8QpkII\/AAAAAAAABms\/TXZK4p20-YE\/s1600\/luther.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-9XknH9J5GUI\/TZ9Bo8QpkII\/AAAAAAAABms\/TXZK4p20-YE\/s200\/luther.jpeg\" width=\"146\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve written a little bit in the past about how it was that <a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/2BFrank\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">I came to be a Catholic<\/a>. Everyone knows Catholics are born and not made, right? That\u2019s what I used to think too.<\/p>\n<p>But when I started looking into the matter, I skipped the opinions of the <i>literati<\/i> and of  \u201cthose who know best\u201d and just started reading the books of the Bible that had been removed by Martin Luther and his brethren during the Protestant Reformation.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly prophetic stuff like this for instance,<br><a name=\"more\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/nab\/040811.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b><i>Wisdom 2: 1a, 12-22<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The wicked said among themselves, <br>thinking not aright:<br>\u201cLet us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us;<br>he sets himself against our doings,<br>Reproaches us for transgressions of the law<br>and charges us with violations of our training.<br>He professes to have knowledge of God<br>and styles himself a child of the LORD.<br>To us he is the censure of our thoughts; <br>merely to see him is a hardship for us,<br>Because his life is not like that of others,<br>and different are his ways.<br>He judges us debased;<br>he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure.<br>He calls blest the destiny of the just<br>and boasts that God is his Father.<br>Let us see whether his words be true;<br>let us find out what will happen to him.<br>For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him<br>and deliver him from the hand of his foes.<br>With revilement and torture let us put him to the test<br>that we may have proof of his gentleness<br>and try his patience.<br>Let us condemn him to a shameful death;<br>for according to his own words, God will take care of him.\u201d<br>These were their thoughts, but they erred;<br>for their wickedness blinded them,<br>and they knew not the hidden counsels of God;<br>neither did they count on a recompense of holiness<br>nor discern the innocent souls\u2019 reward.<br><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">****<\/div>\n<p>Why was this removed from my Bible? Search me. Because that prophecy has been fulfilled. As someone who is much smarter than me said recently, \u201cthe Bible is not a book, it\u2019s a Library. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adw.org\/2011\/04\/the-bible-is-not-a-book-it-is-a-library-and-this-is-key-to-interpreting-scripture\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">And this is key to interpreting Scripture.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And as I\u2019ve said before, unless you have the complete, unabridged copy of the Bible, <a href=\"http:\/\/yimcatholic.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/because-i-love-bible.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">your engine is missing a few parts.<\/a> And I don\u2019t care how smart one guy thinks he is, you don\u2019t mess with <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/archive\/ccc_css\/archive\/catechism\/p1s1c2a3.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Word!<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6738513599344023043-7805511206909730719?l=yimcatholic.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written a little bit in the past about how it was that I came to be a Catholic. 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