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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Who wrote the 4 Gospels and Apostolic Letters in the New Testament of the Christian Bible ... God or men?
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    Are the Jews Gods chosen people?

    [Romans 2:25-29 NASB] 25 For indeed circumcision is of value if you practice the Law; but if you are a transgressor of the Law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision...
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    Is the book of Tobit just fan fiction or real history?

    I have never read Tobit. I was raised atheist and first read a RSV bible laying around the house that had been given to me by a Lutheran Pastor when I made an appointment to ask some questions. Then I read an NIV translation of the Bible used by the Church of God where I was baptized. Later I...
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    Is the book of Tobit just fan fiction or real history?

    Since you answered my objection, I will answer your question. To the best of my knowledge (and I admit to not being an expert on the book of Tobit), it is an uninspired work of history that contains a mixture of true and false information. In that regard it is useful, but it is not “God...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Was Jesus an OT animal sacrifice performed by a Levitical Priest according to the Law of Moses? That was the topic in Maccabees. (Apples to Oranges = Old Covenant to New Covenant = blood of animals to death of Christ)
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    Is the book of Tobit just fan fiction or real history?

    Stating facts not in evidence. Which early churches declared Tobit to be SCRIPTURE?
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    If I discuss the problems of Maccabees as part of the NT, then I am corrected that it is part of the OT and if I discuss the problems with Maccabees as part of the OT then I am directed to the New Testament. This is not an honest discussion. How can a book not written by a prophet of God that...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    I never complained about the money. I know they sent money to pay for a sin offering. I keep expressing my point over and over that the sin offering was for people that were already dead. People that God had judged for idolatry, trusting in false gods rather than the true God. Where in...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Are you claiming that Maccabees does not say those men died because of the sin of trusting in false gods, and that the money being sent to Jerusalem was not for a sin offering for the men that were already dead and that there was an expectation that that sin offering would grant forgiveness for...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    That is not an exegesis of Holy Scripture to prove a point of doctrine. That is a diatribe aimed at communicating that you don’t like what I said. Message received. However, the Apocrypha that I quoted still advocates making an OT sin offering for the dead when such an offering is neither...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Feel free to exegete the verse to prove your point that Jesus grants a “second chance” to hear the gospel and repent after people die. If this is true, then much of scripture needs to be footnoted, and if it is not true then it is an irrelevant bunny trail to my objection to the...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    I DID notice that, which is why I did not criticize the “buying of forgiveness” but rather I pointed out that there is no OT precedent for offerings for the dead. It is you who are denying the gospel if you claim that a sacrifice for someone who died in a “sin leading to death” will save them...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    THAT is exactly why the book is Apocrypha (useful) but not “God breathed” Scripture, and why it has no place with the other 66 book of “thus says the Lord”.
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    2 Maccabees 12 39 On the next day, as by that time it had become necessary, Judas and his men went to take up the bodies of the fallen and to bring them back to lie with their kinsmen in the sepulchres of their fathers. 40 Then under the tunic of every one of the dead they found sacred tokens...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Can you provide any indication that the books of the Apocrypha were ever viewed as part of the sacred writings of the Jewish Nation? They predate the coming of Christ, so the issue is one of God’s Holy Scripture to the nation of Israel. Jesus defined it as “the Law and the Prophets” (which...
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    Is Veneration of the Saints something that is allowed by God?

    Do you “venerate” the US Flag by offering up prayers to it for your salvation? Hail Mary, Full of Grace, The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Hail...
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    Early Church authority

    You mean like when the Early Church followed the practices of the Judiaisers and the Apostle Paul suggested that those teaching traditions contrary to the Gospel should “emasculate themselves”? :)
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Do you believe that one can earn the favor of God by doing good works? (Some books in the Apocrypha teach that you can, but the Apostle Paul emphatically teaches that you cannot. Which is mistaken?) Do you believe Paul when he writes “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord”...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Catholics believe that some of the Apocryphal books belong in the Bible because they are also divinely inspired and useful for the same reasons that the 66 books in the Protestant Bible are useful. They believe this because the teachings found in those books agree with the “traditions” of the...
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    Are Doctrines affected by Modern Versions

    The EARLIEST manuscripts do not include the phrase “in the flesh” which was likely a later addition. The MEDIEVAL manuscripts that were available to the KJV translators included the phrase “in the flesh”. Each group of translators was faithful in translating the “original” texts that they had...
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