Laidbackman
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First, you haven't called anybody out on anything. It's more like the other way around.I called you out for making several clear factual errors and you respond with all these random insults based on nothing.
The removal of the apocrypha from the Bible wasn't "mysterious", and it didn't suddenly come in 1885. All the way back in 1647 the Westminster Confession (one of the foundational documents of Protestantism) declared that the Apocrypha were not part of Scripture, following the discernment that many (not all) Protestants had already been making for years at that point. Before then the Orthodox, Catholics, and some Protestants had considered the Apocrypha worthy of being included in the Bible though not of the same status as the Old and New Testaments, but a bit of a lesser place. The King James Bible was printed back in 1611 back before protestantism really got kicking in terms of doctrine, so they just copied the Catholics and included the Apocryphra. By 1640 most new protestant Bibles were being printed without the Apocryphra included, you make a big deal about the New King James in 1885 but ignore they'd been talking about why it should be taken out for 250 years at that point, nothing "mysterious" about it.
You also ignore that LOTS of Bibles after 1885 still included the Apocrypha, including the Revised Version printed by the Anglican Church just nine years later in 1884, along with the Catholic bibles, Orthodox bibles, and some Protestant bibles.
And I HAVE read the Apocrypha myself, all of it at least once and some books of it many times. I'm calling you out because you're trying to turn hundreds of years of open, public theological debate into some huge mystery/conspiracy which is just silly.
Anyway, it's not about you. Like I just said, most church goers never heard of the Apocrypha, and if they did, it was probably only a few years go. And not only have you ignored what I pointed out in the Apocrypha, but anybody with common sense, especially any so-called African-American, clearly knows why White people took the Apocrypha out of the KJV in 1885. You're beginning to sound too much like a troll.
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