Maccabees 3:48 is not even in the Bible. its part of the fake books that Catholic priests add to their books. Its a rare religious book store that will even sell you a Catholic bible. so if you are getting information from there, you are incorrectly informed right from the start. what color is water? ALL water? what color is Wind? Can you hold a cloud? stop thinking that God is an actual touchable man. Only while Jesus lived among the people was God touchable.
Have you heard the expression "the face of a nation" - that encompasses the nature of the government, the people, the actions of the people, the economic status of the people, their religions, occupations and much more. The Face of God does not mean a 6 X 8 inch face like we have - it encompasses spirit and love and conscience and joy and punishments. You should possibly start over with your thinking.
Thanks for your comment. I like what you had to say. First, in the early 18e century the Protestant removed 14 books from the bible. The bible as we know it today consists of 66 books which are rightfully called the "Protestant bible". The Roman Catholic Church have however, added few, I believe 5, of the 14 lost books to their bible again. In contrary to your thoughts, they felt that not all of these books were deuterocanonical, and discredited the Prostestants.
I would like to remind you that the KJV of 1611 does have 80 books with the lost books intact. Christ spoke of the feast of dedication in the Apochrypha which does make these books canonical, unless Christ is a liar.
The truth of the matter is that these books were removed by wicked church fathers to cause confusion and to make the bible less understandable and agreeable. Often times people will say thinks because they have heard or read something. If you had understood the narrative of the bible, you would have known why these books were removed from the KJV of 1611. Imagine how hard it is to read a book of which a few hundred pages are removed. I am going to leave it up to you to find out why these books were removed from the bible. These books (pages) were simply torn out of the bible because they didn't fit the wicked purposes of these people.
[Revelation 22:19] And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
My thoughts are correct, you just need to study harder and understand what book you are dealing with, namely the "Holy Bible". Holy means separate and so God only gave his words to those whom he had separated. [Isaiah 28:9] Whom shall he teach knowledge and whom shall he make to understand doctrine?
Dude I'm not religious at all, I just live in a Catholic country and took a lot of classes related to theology. You're preaching to the choir here. I'm asking questions honestly, not asking loaded questions with accusations behind them. ;)
Edit: My bad, dude. I thought you were quoting my post. I'm drunk. It's 8pm here and I need to deal with a cat who's about to give birth. Forgive me hahaha. I was like, "What's this guy on about? I totally agree that church authorities took way too much out of the Bible."
Well neither am I, religious. The bible has nothing to do with religion and Christianity is NOT in the bible. That does say something about Christianity. It's a power structure. Their goal is to bewitch and rule the world and additionally they sell prayers for money. Today, many churches preach a prosperity doctrine as if God cares about money. Okay, maybe God needs a new 1.7m car.;). It's high time to cast down imagination and lies. My post was meant for those who say they know God or have a relation with Him. No offence to you bro. I hope your cat gave birth to many strong and healthy kittens.