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After all, the New Testament never mentions anything in the apocrypha. So the Catholics must have made it up.

Clement of Rome was alive the same time the apostles were alive, and would have known Peter and Paul personally. Clement wrote a letter to the Corinthians (1 Clement) where he mentions Moses, Judith, and Esther, and calls them all scripture. Judith is an apocryphal book. If Peter and Paul...

Is that based on the authority of an early church council or a modern day council?

When did the church stop being led by the Holy Spirit?

The Jews had both Ezra and Nehemiah on the same scroll, and were both together considered one book by the early church. But early church councils said that there should be 2 books of Ezra.

In John 6, it mentions Passover. The only feast I can think of that comes before Passover is Purim.

Abel’s sacrifice was accepted because he offered the firstborn of the best of his flock. So Cain would also have been accepted if he had offered the firstfruits of the best of his field. But he didn’t. It says that Cain just offered some of the fruits if his field. It doesn’t say that he...

Genesis 46:27 and Exodus 1:5 say that there were 70 people in Jacob’s family. But Stephen Martyr says 75 people in Acts 7:14. Why is there a difference in the numbers? Who are the missing people? Why are they missing? And what does this effect?

If it’s fiction, then why did so many early churches declared it to be scripture?

The Bible says that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon, ruling from the city of Babylon, but Judith says he was king of Assyria, ruling from the city of Ninevah. Does this prove Judith is fiction? Or is there something else we’re not thinking of?

What is the main reason why Catholics believe it does belong?

Even the Catholic Church doesn’t accept them as scripture. How did they end up in the King James apocrypha?

Most ancient cultures date back to at least 3000 BC. (Egyptian, Chinese, Babylonian, etc.) But the flood was 2350 BC. So why don’t these ancient civilizations ever record being wiped out by a worldwide flood?

Psalm 15

The money changers were simply selling animalls, so that the people who wanted to come a far distance to Jerusalem didn't have to haul a big animal the whole way. They could just take a bag of money with them, and exchange it for an animal at the temple, and then sacrifice that. So, what's so...

The Bible says Usury is wrong.

"Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?" -Luke 19:23