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Wow. That’s a lot. Not exactly related to the topic of this thread. I don’t really get into Catholic apologetics. But I might check it out. Thanks.

Good question! Thanks for asking. I think there is a HUGE difference between the Catholic Church of the 1500’s, and the Catholic church from 1,000 years earlier in the 300’s. These early church councils in the 4th century decided our New Testament. Why shouldn’t they also decide our Old...

I don’t think Eusebius is claiming to have access to older, accurate Hebrew texts. But rather, he’s claiming that the church in his time BELIEVED that the Septuagint was translated from older, accurate Hebrew texts. That’s why he defends the Septuagint’s inclusion of the extra 650 years in...

Daniel 9 clearly prophesies about the coming Messiah. Daniel 8 prophesies about the Maccabees. Maybe the question we SHOULD be asking is, “Why is one important and the other isn’t?”

No, I’m not Catholic. Never have been. Never will be. I disagree STRONGLY with many beliefs in the Catholic Church. Like, Mary was a virgin her whole life? Church leaders can’t get married? Uh, Paul said they could get married…to one wife. So no, I have no intentions of joining Catholicism...

http://www.attalus.org/translate/eusebius5.html#71

Yes, I agree with that. But we don’t just take books out of the Bible just because we don’t know at the moment how they point to Christ. It really does seem to me that this history must be included in our Bibles. I felt that even before reading Maccabees. And then to find out that the early...

In Eusebius’ Chronicon, he compared the Hebrew and Greek in the genealogy in Genesis 11. He knew the difference between the numbers, how there’s a 650 year difference. He said that the Hebrew is untrustworthy and unreliable, and said that the Greek Septuagint is translated from old and accurate...

Except that they included it in the Bible and called it divine, canonical scripture. Rome, Hippo, and Carthage. Look up those councils. And there’s lots of other things in the Old Testament that I don’t exactly know how they point to Christ. Were you even listening???

One thing that really stands out to me about the apocrypha is this: I could never understand Daniel 8. Even after 20 years of attending church events regularly, and reading through the Bible multiple times, and I’ve still never understood Daniel 8. But one day I watched a bunch of...

How do you know the Jews never did? Just because the unbelieving Jews today SAY that they never did? Did you know there are Jews today in Israel who are trying to get Tobit back in to the canon of scripture? It seems to me that the only logical way for the early church to have accepted these...

How is that at all related to Judith?

They didn’t just use the Greek. They compared the Greek with the Hebrew, condemned the Hebrew and defended the Greek.

Wow, this subject is popular.

Yay

I don’t find flat earth to be convincing. Convince me.

Yes, the early church used the Septuagint. They quoted from the apocryphal books as scripture. I have a 2-hour audio teaching from David Bercot. He read all the ante-Nicene church fathers. I can send you a link if you like. Also, think about how 1 Maccabees was written in Hebrew originally. But...

Because the early church accepted those books as scripture. The most reasonable conclusion was that the Disciples told them it’s scripture, meaning the Jews accepted them before the time of Christ. Josephus lived AFTER the time of Christ.

I would love to hear the scientific evidence that convinced you.

My main interest originally was not the Apocrypha. I had little to no interest in the Apocrypha. My main interest originally was answering atheistic objections to the Bible, due to supposed mistakes in the Bible. One of those supposed “mistakes” was a historical issue that an atheist brought...