Didn Protestants have good reasons for editing the Catholic Bible?
The Protestant Bible was created partly to protest against the Catholic Bible. Protestants decided that the canon of the Hebrew Bible agreed on by the rabbis about 100 CE should be the basis for translations of the Old Testament, which meant omitting some of the books of the Septuagint. (The rabbis excluded from their canon some of the books of the Septuagint, because they felt these books were written after the time of God’s revelation.) But Paul and the other apostles to the Gentiles were reading the Septuagint as their “scripture.” In fact, the Greek-speaking church, which came to dominate in the West, began with the Septuagint as its only scripture. The Christian Bible used for more than a thousand years by all Christians and still used by Catholics has books in it that were excluded from the Protestant Bible. This makes all talk about “the Bible” (which one?) as the literal, inerrant and infallible word of God seem rather silly.
