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

    The early church didn’t decide the New Testament?
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    “Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.” -Heinrich Heine, 1821
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    How is it that the early church has the authority to decide the New Testament, but no authority to decide the Old Testament?
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    Should there be 2 books of Ezra, or just 1?

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

    The point I was making is that you can’t treat Josephus the same as Maccabees. The councils of Rome, Hippo, and Carthage declared them to be holy scripture in the late 300’s. Yes, they were local. No, they weren’t ecumenical (worldwide). Authoritative? Well, they were authoritative locally...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    There’s a difference with Maccabees though. Maccabees was declared to be scripture by multiple early church councils. Josephus was not. Maccabees was in every Christian’s Bible for the first 1500 years of Christianity until the Protestants took it out. Josephus was not. Is that really an honest...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Can you explain what you mean?
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Let me just share my own experience. Basically, over the course of more than 20 years of being a Christian, I’ve read through he Bible multiple times. I’ve also read through the book of Daniel multiple times. But I could never understand Daniel 8 or Daniel 11. They were always so confusing...
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

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

    If the prophecies in Daniel cannot be understood without reading the history of the Maccabees, then how is it beneficial to tell people not to read it?
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    So the books in the apocrypha were authored by Catholics, and they’re about Catholic history?
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    What feast was it that was mentioned in John 5?

    In John 6, it mentions Passover. The only feast I can think of that comes before Passover is Purim.
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Good point. Really spot on.
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    Is there something doctrinally wrong with the prayer of Manasseh?
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    So the extra book that Luther included is The Prayer of Manasseh? And the council of Trent didn’t include that one?
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    What was the extra book that Luther included that the Roman Catholic church didn’t? Did he explain why he included it and they didn’t?
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    What is the main reason why the Apocrypha doesn’t belong in the Bible?

    I’m pretty sure Martin Luther considered 1 Maccabees divine holy scripture, but wanted 2 Maccabees thrown out. He said so.
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    Why was Cain’s sacrifice rejected, and Abel’s was not?

    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...
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    What did Jesus do in the 3 days in Hades?

    Jesus preached the gospel to those who sinned in the days of Noah. And it says that he “led captivity captive.” Sounds to me that Jesus paid the bail to get them out of jail. He got them out of hell, and brought them to heaven.
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    Were there 70 or 75 people in Jacob’s family?

    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?
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