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The New Testament never mentions anything from the apocrypha, so it must all be fiction then, right?
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I would not go that far, depending upon what you mean. It called the apo rypha because while they we in the Synagog ark wirh the Scriptural books, they were hidden behind cover as not the same value something like our religious fiction today. Luther included them in his German translation but pulled together i.to a sestion between the testaments as interesting reading. Something like the Antquities of Josephus was in some englsh Bibles.
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Appeal to Ignorance.
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I sometime wonder if there is anything else but ignorance. We are all ignorant about many thngs but that does not stop us does it.
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I’m not so sure that’s true.
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I read most of those books up to 2 Maccabees. They have a feel of not being God inspired. There is also obvious historical errors in some. IMHO I don’t believe they are appropriate in the bible. But they were good reading. Judith was an interesting read.
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Not being mentioned does not make them fiction, nor does it automatically mean they are not inspired.
That is not the standard for inclusion in scripture.
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the oracles of God were given unto the Jews and they knew which books were inspired by God to be written that is why they are not found in the OLD TESTAMENT. they might contain some history the Israelites but it does not mean it was inspired to be used as a scripture.
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For example : the fact that the Angel and the devil fought over the body of Moses = from an apocrypha
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Some the Apocryphal books are great history. I would cite the four books of Maccabees. However, were they inspired books? Not really.
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Does that apply to any other Jewish Scriptures that don’t get a mention?
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The Septuagint with the deutero canonical books was used in NT times and the canon of the Hebrew Bible as in the Massoretic Text was determined by rabbis a long time after. Luther decided to use the shorter Hebrew Canon partly so as to exclude verses which justified prayers for the dead.
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((nearly spot milk out of my nose )))
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Jesus frequently quoted The Book of Enoch. Is that part of the Apocrypha?
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Doesn’t mean it’s fiction, just means it’s not divine.
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My study Bible uses a translation of the Septuagint by the St. Athanasius Academy for the Old Testament.
The Orthodox church has always called them what the Apostles and the Jews called them: Holy Scripture.
I found this article online which I thought was short but interesting.http://theorthodoxfaith.com/article/the-so-called-apocrypha/
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The Apocrypha are pagan texts disguised as Christian.
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Neither does the Jewish Bible
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The book of jasher is referenced in scripture, which is apart of the apocryphal books
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The apostles Jude quoted from the book of Enoch.
Jude 1:14
[14]And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, -
Even Jesus cited many things from the apocryphal books… Amongst others. Which proves the apocryphal books are scripture
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They maybe the books of the Sage,worth reading them,
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The Catholics deceived Clement of Rome in the first century!
The unbelieving Jews gave us the correct books later on, Jesus misquoted Isaiah but it’s probably those Catholics that changed the NT in the first Century before the Temple was destroyed!
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