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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    The Feast of Dedication is Hanukkah, which is recorded in Maccabees. Just as Purim is the Feast celebrated in Esther. So how can you say Jesus didn’t celebrate a holiday that comes from the history of the Maccabees? Just like Passover comes from the events in Exodus.
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    Why did Jesus cleanse the temple?

    So, basically none of you know.
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    3 and 4 Esdras are not accepted by Catholics. Enoch is not accepted by Catholics. Third and fourth Maccabees or not excepted by Catholics. I’m open to these books belonging, just as the Ethiopian church accepts them.
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    Oh. Ok. So Anabaptists are Catholic now. Oh, and they’re just a splinter group. Right. The largest church in my city has Anabaptist and Mennonite roots. Oh, but they’re just a small, insignificant splinter group. Right.
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    What is this? Math class? If Greek Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Anabaptists, and Amish all accept Maccabees, then yes, it’s illogical to assume that just because someone accepts Maccabees then they must be Catholic. Yes, that’s illogical. Look up David Bercot.
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    I just did. See my comment above. You want me to type all that again?
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    There’s nobody else who accepts the Book of Mormon, except Mormons. Bad example! Lots and lots of Non-Catholics accept Maccabees. You’re comparing apples and oranges.
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    What makes you think I adhere to the Catholic version? 1 and 2 Maccabees were not authored by Catholics. The Catholic Church didn’t exist when they were authored by the Jews and added to the Greek Septuagint, which were the Jewish scriptures for Greek speaking Jews years before Christ. AIN’T...
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    I lean more towards the Ethiopian Orthodox canon than anything. Jude quoted Enoch. But I lean towards the Eastern Greek Orthodox more than the Catholic one. So yes, you’re right about that. Catholics took books out of the Bible. Even the King James apocrypha contains books which that the...
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    Christian is good enough for me. Some say, “I follow Paul.” Others say, “I follow Apollos.” Others say, “I follow Martin Luther.” Others say, “I follow Menno Simons.” Others say, “I follow John Calvin.” Is Christ divided? I was raised in a Pentecostal Assemblies of God church. But to say I’m...
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    I don’t know what you’re talking about. I never chose any logos or icons.
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    That’s your response? I’ve just shown that 2 Maccabees is NOT saying that their money paid for the sins of their dead soldiers, but rather their money merely paid for the animals to be sacrificed. The money merely provided for the “sin offering” spoken of in Leviticus. This proves that the...
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    Why did Jesus cleanse the temple?

    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...
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    Burning fish guts is not practicing magic. The Old Testament talks about plenty of burnt sacrifices that are a pleasing aroma to the Lord. Tobit simply tells us about burning fish guts, and that this particular aroma scares away demons apparently. Nothing about magic there. 2 Maccabees does not...
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    It’s not nonsense. Most people who I know in the Protestant church (I was raised Protestant and still am), they simply won’t read the apocrypha. They stay away from it either because they believe it’s heretical, or because they believe it’s fictional work that the Catholics made up, or they...
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    But teachers today say these books are heretical, teaching false doctrines. This causes people to stay away from them. Most people in the church think these books are works of fiction that Catholics added, rather than what they really are, Jewish books added many years before Christ and accepted...
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    But when you say it’s not divinely inspired, you’re discouraging people from reading it. Most of the early churches were taught by the disciples that it’s divine scripture. That’s why they declared it so in the 300’s. Why do you want to discourage people from reading about the holiday Jesus...
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    If Jesus celebrated it, then isn’t it important enough for us to read it?
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    Apocrypha?

    I showed 3 local councils in the 4th century that accepted 1 and 2 Maccabees as scripture. Can you show ONE local council from that time that rejected 1 or 2 Maccabees? Of course there’s the Lone Ranger, Jerome, who said the Maccabees don’t belong. But no councils agreed with him. What...
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    Did Jesus celebrate a holiday that comes from the apocrypha?

    But they say the New Testament provides no verification for apocryphal books. But Jesus celebrated the holiday that comes from Maccabees. If Jesus celebrated Purim, would it really be sensible to say Esther doesn’t belong in the Bible?
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