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Luther thought so. He wanted to get rid of Hebrews, Jude, 2 Peter, Revelation, and especially James, since James 2:24-26 flew directly in the face of his "justification by faith alone" doctrine. However, his friend Philip Melanchthon talked him out of it, by pointing out that if he kept dealing with uncomfortable doctrines by simply throwing away that part of the Scriptures that contained them (such as he did with 2 Maccabees 12, which contains Purgatory, for example), he was going to have a pretty thin Bible before he got through. Luther reluctantly agreed, but did his best to quash any authority the books had by denegrating them; he declared that Jude was not the work of the Apostle, and dismissed James as an "epistle of straw". (O'Hare, Facts About Luther; Acinar, Luther's Own Statements; Ray, Crossing the Tiber; Stoddard, Rebuilding a Lost Faith; Sungenis, "From Controversy to Consolation".)If you don't believe they belong, why were they included in every council that debated the canon, and included until the reformationists kicked them out? does this mean the NT contents is open to discussion?
Originally posted by arab4christ
Just a quick note.....These apocryphal books were tried by many scholars and rabbis under the Bible Code experiment and failed. Not one code was found in them, while the OT has millions....I think this is just a small reasonal proof.
God bless
a4c
Originally posted by I can eat 50 eggs
Is this really what you are basing your decision on?
scary.
Originally posted by arab4christ
Just a quick note.....These apocryphal books were tried by many scholars and rabbis under the Bible Code experiment and failed. Not one code was found in them, while the OT has millions....I think this is just a small reasonal proof.
God bless
a4c
Originally posted by arab4christ
The major cases against these books is this: Each of the books in the Bible relate and hint to each other. Referring back and forth helps us a lot with the different books.
Originally posted by arab4christ
Ive read many of those apocryphal books. God has girls ?? Gods children are stars?? Jesus was telling secrets to each prophet and said that if they talk rocks would hit them or something like that? For Gods sake, what is this!
Originally posted by Wolseley
EXACTLY.
Give the man a dollar cee-gar and a gift certificate to the store of his choice.
Tobias (Tobit), Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, I and II Machabees, and three documents added to protocanonical books, viz., the supplement to Esther, from x, 4, to the end, the Canticle of the Three Youths (Song of the Three Children) in Daniel, iii, and the stories of Susanna and the Elders and Bel and the Dragon...
And not only the Book of Jasher, but a whole boatload of Scriptural books are mentioned in Scripture that we just plain don't have any more. What we know as the Old Testament is only a part of the writings produced by the ancient Jewish people. For example:Anyone ever hear of the Book of Jasher?
I believe it was referred to in the KJV.
"Is not this written in the Book of Jasher?"--Joshua, x. 13.
"Behold it is written in the Book of Jasher."--II Samuel, i. 18
Originally posted by Wolseley
What Protestants call "the Apocrypha" is what Catholics call "the Deuterocanon".
What Catholics call "apocrypha" is what Protestants call "pseudepigrapha".
And not only the Book of Jasher, but a whole boatload of Scriptural books are mentioned in Scripture that we just plain don't have any more. What we know as the Old Testament is only a part of the writings produced by the ancient Jewish people. For example:
The Acts of Solomon (see 1 Kings 11:41)
The Book of the Wars of the Lord (Numbers 21:14)
The Book of Nathan the Prophet (1 Chronicles 29:29)
The Book of Gad the Seer (1 Chronicles 29:29)
The Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite (2 Chronicles 9:29)
The Visions of Iddo the Seer (2 Chronicles 9:29)
The Book of Shemaiah the Prophet (2 Chronocles 12:15)
The Story of the Prophet Iddo (2 Chronicles 13:22)
The Chronicle of Jehu, Son of Hanani (2 Chronicles 20:34).
Who knows what these books might have contained??? We'll never find out, since all of them were destroyed or lost over the long course of Israelite history.
Is the Bible incomplete without them? Maybe. But then, the Jewish folks have their rabbinic schools and the Talmud to "fill in the gaps" left in the Bible, and the Catholics have Sacred Tradition and the Magesterium of the Church to do the same. The Protestants believe the Bible to be sufficient unto itself, so if there are troublesome passages or apparent gaps, then they live with them.
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