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Douay-Rheims. Ancient non pozzed translation with the extra books you cannot find in King James.
Like Tobit and Jubilees? Never heard of that one
Douay-Rheims is the old og catholic translation, from before the kjv, by a few years* (the modern one most buy is an update of this of course)
It has the dueterocannonical books like Tobit (Tobias), which some prots call the ‘apocrypha’ (calling it that helps them to justify to themselves their taking out books of the bible I guess). Doesn’t include Jubilees, that one is truely apocryphal. It also has some old naming and follows the organisation of the original Septuagint (the og Greek translation), so that some of the psalms (after psalm 10 IIRC) are numbered 1 lower, until nearly the end.
I think the Douay Rheims is very important but it’s clunky in the same way the kjv is. If you’re wanting the easiest of reads, this isn’t it. But its old, predates the modern nonsense, includes all the books the faithful had been using since the beginning*. There’s a lot to be said for having it be one of your main bibles.
There’s a nice side-by-side version of it with the Latin vulgate from baronius press.
Aren't you essentially asking "Why does God let bad things happen to good people?!" question commonly posed by Sunday school children and atheists? If you just want to engage in philosophical theology banter, a dedicated Christian forum or even Christianity Stack Exchange would work better.
He allowed the temple to fall, and the ark to fall into enemy hands and become lost. Usually when the people fell to sin and rebellion right?
Your argument also falls down when you realise people arguing about it when they were first removed could have made the exact same argument, but against their removal. And we still can when looking at time. He’d allow it to be wrong throughout most of church history?
No, I’m satisfied that your argument was countered and your questions answered. I’m not going to play those games, you were clearly making an argument through that line of questioning.
If one is to take your question at face value and instead of the evasive, leading argument used most by Lawyers seeking to give themselves a avenue of innocent questioning -- it's Free Will. It's always been about Free Will, God's greatest gift to humankind.
The freedom to choose is the freedom to make the wrong choice. If God had to forcibly interdict post the death of Jesus Christ, the second Adam - then he becomes no better than Lucifer who is allowed to cheat instead of holding to his absolute principles as the absolute, creator Lord of existence. His creation, Humanity, must and is allowed to act freely on the material plane as designed by God and thus are swayed by the easy sins and mistakes.
You make the age old Jewish argument of "if God is so powerful, why does he allow-", full stop right there. Because its Free Will, humanity makes the mistakes of mistranslations and alterations of texts from a position of the Sin of Pride.