What's the meaning of 1st Maccabees?

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indeed, practically every Mormon missionary's (at least those that came to me) great defense was a sense of peace at reading the Book of Mormon and praying.
Reminds me of what Islamic clerics always keep telling me, just read the Quran and you’ll know for for sure it’s from God and not produced by man.
 
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I remember reading the 1st Maccabees I still haven’t finished it, but I loved reading it part of it, it helps one understand many things both within the rest of the Deuterocanonical books and even the greater context of the Canonical books, it’s always quite shockingly accurate in its history and it’s detail in historical events more so than many other books in the Bible. I’d feel sorry for anyone who neglects to read it or views it as uninspired Apocrypha.
 
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My mistake. I did not know that Maccabees is in the Orthodox writ as well.

However, my advice to him still remains. If he wants to understand the spiritual point of view that the Orthodox see in the text, then he will get that answer from them. I merely said it is not in Protestant Bibles, I did not make the canon of the Protestant Bible, but I have read those documents and had no sense of the Holy Spirit in my reading.
1 and 2 Maccabees is in the Biblical canon of every non-Protestant body, be it Rome, the Eastern Orthodox, all the Oriental Orthodox, and even the Church of the East. Some heretics thought they felt the Holy Spirit in writing heretical works like the Gospel of Thomas and reading them. Canonization or divine inspiration is not decided upon based on personal feelings. Men and not the Christ’s Church made the Protestant canon based in the very thing your employing now, personal feelings and preferences.
 
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Reminds me of what Islamic clerics always keep telling me, just read the Quran and you’ll know for for sure it’s from God and not produced by man.

there are a lot of similarities between Islam and Mormonism.
 
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Emotion can never be what we base the true Faith on. As Jeremiah said, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?”
The Spirit is not emotion. He communicates to us by intuition and revelation. The heart is desperately wicked for the unregenerate, but not in those who have died with Christ and raised with him to life. The new birth provides a new spirit and a new heart.

Eze_11:19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

Eze_36:26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.​
 
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1 and 2 Maccabees is in the Biblical canon of every non-Protestant body, be it Rome, the Eastern Orthodox, all the Oriental Orthodox, and even the Church of the East. Some heretics thought they felt the Holy Spirit in writing heretical works like the Gospel of Thomas and reading them. Canonization or divine inspiration is not decided upon based on personal feelings. Men and not the Christ’s Church made the Protestant canon based in the very thing your employing now, personal feelings and preferences.
So how are men of the non Protestant not men too? How did the non Protestant groups know what documents were in the canon? Was it not by the same method? Councils agreed in the different groups what is in the canon. Are not the men in councils still men?

Look, I did not realize this was an Orthodox forum. I came only to answer the OP because I saw it in the new posts column. I did not come here to argue for or against anything. I do not wish to continue this discussion because it will only lead to disruption, which is not my desire. Good day sir.
 
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