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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?

Did they?

They were descendants of Abraham?

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?

If so, then why are we being discouraged from reading Maccabees?

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...

John 10:22 The Feast of Dedication.

Hebrews 11:35 says men were tortured, not accepting deliverance so that they might obtain a better resurrection. Who was Paul talking about? Sounds like 2 Maccabees chapter 7 to me.

Who are the Kings of the South and the Kings of the North?

People have asked me what it is that caused our bible translations to be missing those extra 100 years on 6 generations, causing the timeline to get distorted out of proportion. But what people don't realize is that the thing that caused the timeline to get distorted is also the thing that...

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

I think the Apocrypha belongs in the Bible. Other people say that it's doesn't. What do you say?

That's why the early church accepted it as scripture. Even Martin Luther called it scripture.