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WHY WE REJECT THE APOCRYPHATHE APOCRYPHA includes 14 books added to the Septuagint and also found in the Vulgate but not in the Hebrew Canon. It came from nowhere 280 after the Hebrew Canon was close. APOCRYPHA means a secret or spurious teaching. It was originally written in Greek [except for some portion of BARUCH, JUDITH, TOBIT and First MACCABEES and ECCLESIASTICUS which were written in poor Aramaic]. We REJECT THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS for several reasons: The Apocrypha was not included in the Canon because of its imperfect and poor historical background and setting. The Lord Jesus Christ did not quote from any book of the Apocrypha. No writer of the Scriptures ever quoted or mentioned anything from the books of the Apocrypha. The Hebrew historian Josephus expressly excluded the Apocrypha books from the list of the sacred writings because they were spurious. The Hebrew historian Eusebius also excluded the Apocryphal books in the list of sacred writings. No mention of the Apocrypha was made in any catalogue of the Canonical books before the 5th century because the Catholics slipped it in during the middle of 5th century. These books were never asserted to be divinely inspired or to possess divine authority in their contents. No prophets were connected with these writings unlike the Old Testament Canon were written by a prophet, either by office or by gift or both. The Apocrypha contained many historical, geographical and chronological errors. It teaches doctrines and upholds practices, which are contrary to the Canon of the Scripture. It teaches prayer and offering for the dead [2 MACCABEES 12:41-46] and the justification of suicide. It teaches the atonement sin and salvation of the soul by almsgiving [ECCLESIASTICUS 3:33, 25-29] and justified the cruelty to slaves. It advocates hatred of the Samaritans, sanctioned lying, encourage magical incantations, it encourage and justified assassination. It teaches the doctrine of purgatory and angelic power for intercession. MODERN APOCRYPHA is a collection of 14 religious books- mostly written within the last hundred years and purporting to add to the revelation of the Canon of the Bible. They claimed to be genuine documents of the Christian antiquity but proven by the scholars as hoax. Some of them are:
There were many attempts to infiltrate the Bible with spurious writings but failed the test of Biblical Canon. The genius of God had protected the Canon of the Scripture by His power and wisdom. JR Cherreguine Bible Doctrine Ministries
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12/08/06