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Baruch, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Sirach, Tobit and Wisdom. Yes, I understand about the other books not being in the bible, BUT... I see the bible as somewhat of a "law" book. To me, the 7 books missing from the KJV of the bible is like eliminating certain sections of law. For example...

Me too! Hopefully you can read post #199.

I'll have to do this the hard way... I do pray to God directly. But I don't stop there. Like I mentioned before, confessing to a priest about this has such a good feeling attached to it. I confess to God every day, as I have an ongoing dialogue with him. Heck, just about an hour ago, I...

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You're right. The sources are not the same. However, one of the reasons that the other 7 books were dismissed from the Protestant bible was because they weren't originally written in Hebrew. Now that some of those books have been discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls as having been written...

I see myself that way. I was baptized into the faith when I was 2 weeks old. Both my parents were Catholic, and my maternal grandparents were Catholic. So, when I say, "all my life", it pretty much IS, all my life. I also mean that even though I've been a 'lapsed' Catholic--that is--I wasn't...

As a Catholic, I don't see myself as praying TO saints as I see myself praying THROUGH saints. To me, it's no different than me asking *you* to "put in a good word for me". We ask the saints to pray for us, just like we'd ask others to pray for us. By the way...I've had some wonderful...

Hi Berserk! First of all, I want to thank you for starting this thread. I've read it entirely, and all I can say is, that I hope the rest of your 9 points will be addressed soon! I am Catholic. Have been all my life. But it's only in the past decade or so that I really started to delve...

How I see it.... While many scholars believe that the gospels were finished years after Jesus' death, it doesn't necessarily mean the authors didn't begin to write them while Jesus was still alive. At the end of John, it says, "It is this disciple who testifies to these things and has written...