What year was it when the Catholic Church made up the fictional story of Maccabees?

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Wasn’t it 1546?
 

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Since you cared enough to start a topic on it …

  • Who told you the story of Maccabees was fictional?
  • Who told you the “Catholic Church” made it up?
    • (please clarify the word “Catholic”) … are you saying
      • “Eastern Orthodox”
      • “Roman Catholic”
      • the “Universal” church of all believers?
  • Why the year 1546 for a story that takes place so much earlier?
 

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If this is really another run at a canonical Maccabees, let’s take a moment to examine the “Martyrdom of Polycarp”.
Polycarp died in the Second Century AD (the exact date is debated). Nobody knows who wrote the book, but it is generally attributed to the “Early Church Fathers” as a group. The oldest manuscript can be dated to no later than the Fourth Century AD.

The Martyrdom of Polycarp describes the exemplary example of how this Bishop conducted himself in the face of persecution and relates the miracles surrounding his death (martyrdom). Millions of people have read the story and found it uplifting and inspirational. To my knowledge, nobody is suggesting that the Bible needs to be opened and the canon expanded to include the Martyrdom of Polycarp as “God-breathed” Holy Scripture.

So what is your opinion on comparing and contrasting Maccabees with the Martyrdom of Polycarp?
 

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Wasn’t it 1546?


I find it unlikely that the "story" of the Maccabee revolt is a made up myth. IMO, it very likely happened.

But that has NOTHING - absolutely nothing whatsoever - to do with whether 4 books with the common moniker of "Maccabees" therefore MUST be the inerrant, fully canonical, inscripturated words of God. You'll find millions of books that speak of World War 2 - and it's very likely that war happened - that doesn't mandate there ergo all those tomes must be included in any book with "BIBLE" on the cover and must have been officially, formally declared to be inerrant, canonical, inscriptursted words of God by some Ruling Body of all Christianity. Think.




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Since it contains the way in which the holiday of the feast of dedication is to be celebrated and for how long, it technology is a holy book, the 8 days oil miracle was made up much later.. the origin is written in the first two, the other 2 books I'm not too familiar with.
 

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I find it unlikely that the "story" of the Maccabee revolt is a made up myth. IMO, it very likely happened.

But that has NOTHING - absolutely nothing whatsoever - to do with whether 4 books with the common moniker of "Maccabees" therefore MUST be the inerrant, fully canonical, inscripturated words of God. You'll find millions of books that speak of World War 2 - and it's very likely that war happened - that doesn't mandate there ergo all those tomes must be included in any book with "BIBLE" on the cover and must have been officially, formally declared to be inerrant, canonical, inscriptursted words of God by some Ruling Body of all Christianity. Think.




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But do you think that the moniker ergo tomes?
 
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