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Your 66-book Bible is not wrong. It's not broken. It's not a lie. But the apostles were reading more books than you have. And the things they wrote make a lot more sense when you can read what they were reading. I need to say that first because I know what you're thinking. You've seen posts about the Ethiopian Bible. You've seen people claim your Bible was "censored" or "corrupted" or that you've been "lied to." I'm not here to say any of that. I love my King James. I've read it for 30 years. I've raised my children on it. I've built my faith on it. The 66 books contain the gospel, the path to salvation, and everything I need for my relationship with God. I'm not trying to replace a single page. But I am going to tell you what happened when I started reading the books the apostles were reading. Because it didn't change my faith. It deepened it in ways I didn't know were possible. . It started with Jude. Jude 14. An apostle — the brother of James, writing under divine inspiration — quotes a book by name. The Book of Enoch. Calls it prophecy. I checked my table of contents. No Book of Enoch. Now, my first reaction wasn't "my Bible is broken." My first reaction was curiosity. If Jude considered this book important enough to quote, and Jude is scripture, what's in the book he's quoting? That's not a dangerous question. That's a faithful question. The same kind of question I'd ask about any cross-reference in my study Bible. Where does this come from? What's the context? So I went looking. . The Book of Enoch was in the Christian Bible for over a thousand years. The early church fathers — Tertullian, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria — treated it as authoritative. It was in the original 1611 King James Bible alongside the other Apocryphal books. It was removed later. Not by a council weighing divine inspiration. By publishers reducing printing costs. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church never removed it. They've had the same 88-book Bible for over 1,500 years. Same collection. No edits. And when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947, the oldest manuscripts ever found included the Book of Enoch right alongside Isaiah and Genesis. Stored together. Read together. Preserved together. I want to be clear about what I'm saying and what I'm not saying. I'm not saying these books are on the same level as the Gospels. I'm not making a theological claim about inspiration. I'm saying that the apostles had access to these books, quoted from them, and the things they wrote in the New Testament assume you've read them too. You can treat them as history. You can treat them as context. You can treat them however your conscience leads you. But reading them changed the way I understood the 66 books I already had. . Let me show you what I mean. Genesis 6 mentions the Nephilim. Giants. Sons of God marrying human women. Then it jumps to the flood. No explanation. My study Bible says "meaning uncertain." I accepted that for 30 years. It's a mystery. Move on. Then I read Enoch. Two hundred fallen angels descending on Mount Hermon. A binding oath. Children that should never have existed. Each angel teaching humanity forbidden knowledge — weapons, sorcery, astrology. The corruption that made the flood necessary. Suddenly Genesis 6 wasn't a mystery. It was a summary. The longer story had been sitting in a book I'd never been given. I didn't lose faith in Genesis. I gained understanding of it. For the first time in 30 years, the passage made complete sense. Not different sense. Complete sense. . Hebrews 11 lists the heroes of faith. One of them was "sawn in two." I'd read that verse dozens of times and never questioned it. But the story of a prophet being sawn in two isn't in the Protestant Old Testament. The author of Hebrews is referencing a text his audience knew — a text about Isaiah being executed by King Manasseh. It's in a book called The Ascension of Isaiah. The New Testament writer wasn't adding to scripture. He was referencing a book his readers already had. I just didn't have it. When I read that book, Hebrews 11:37 went from being a vague reference to a vivid, heartbreaking story of faithfulness unto death. It didn't replace anything in my Bible. It illuminated it. . The 400 years between Malachi and Matthew. Every pastor I've ever sat under called them "the silent years." 1 Maccabees covers those years. The Maccabean revolt. The rise of the Pharisees and Sadducees. Why Rome occupied the land. Where Hanukkah comes from — the feast Jesus celebrated in John 10:22. Without Maccabees, I couldn't understand why the Pharisees cared so obsessively about the Law. With it, I understood — their grandparents died to protect it. Maccabees didn't replace a single verse of my Bible. It gave me the history that makes the New Testament's world make sense. . The Wisdom of Sirach reads like Proverbs but deeper. Practical wisdom about family. Friendship. Grief. Patience. Raising children. Controlling your tongue. It didn't feel foreign. It felt like the part of Proverbs that should have been there all along. Paul echoed the Wisdom of Solomon throughout Romans. Scholars have documented the parallels for centuries. Reading the Wisdom of Solomon didn't change Romans. It showed me what Paul was drawing from. His arguments suddenly had a depth I'd never felt before. None of these books contradicted my 66-book Bible. Not once. They only completed it. . I want to address something else I've heard people say: "If God wanted us to have these books, they'd be in the Bible." Maybe. But they WERE in the Bible. For over a thousand years. The 1611 King James included them. The translators put them there on purpose. They were removed by printers to save on paper costs. And the Ethiopian church — one of the oldest Christian traditions on earth, tracing back to the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8 — never removed them. They've had all 88 books for 2,000 years. The Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed their preservation was accurate. If God wanted these books protected, maybe He did exactly that. In Ethiopia. For 2,000 years. Waiting for us to catch up. . Here's what I found when I went looking for a readable copy. Amazon is flooded with counterfeits. Cheap print-on-demand versions with tiny fonts, missing chapters, and pages that skip the most important parts. Versions that claim to be "complete" but aren't close. The "sacred name" Bibles replaced every familiar word with Hebrew transliterations I couldn't pronounce. Jesus became Yahusha. It felt like joining a different religion just to read a book. Then I found the Complete Ethiopian Bible by The Living Word. All 88 books. Modern English. Readable formatting. Nothing removed. Nothing edited. Yahweh's true name on every page — not replaced with "Lord." Not replaced with transliterations either. Just Yahweh. The way it was written. Over 15,000 people have already ordered their copy. 90-day money-back guarantee. . I want to end where I started. Your 66-book Bible is not wrong. I am not here to shake your faith. I am not here to tell you that you've been reading a lie. I am here to tell you that the apostles had more books than you do. That Jude quoted one by name. That Paul echoed another throughout Romans. That the author of Hebrews referenced stories from books you've never been given. You don't have to call these books scripture. You don't have to change your theology. You don't have to leave your denomination. Just read what the apostles were reading. And watch what happens to your understanding of the 66 books you already love. That's all I'm asking. Nothing replaced. Everything deepened. I'll leave a link to their website below 👇 https://thelivingword.shop/pages/ethiopian-5 The Living Word is a small publisher. She's selling it at 50% off right now because she believes more people should have access. They restock in batches and sell out regularly. If the link works, copies are available. I'll leave the link below 👇 https://thelivingword.shop/pages/ethiopian-5 P.S. I'm not paid to write this. I'm not affiliated with The Living Word. I'm just a Christian who spent 30 years with 66 books and never knew there were 22 more. They didn't replace my faith. They completed my understanding. And I've never read my Bible the same way since. P.P.S. If you're still seeing this post, copies are still available. I'll update this when they're not.

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