Comments by "Annette Murphy" (@AnnetteMurphyger) on "ABC News"
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Joe D this is an answer I found on quora as it helps a lot.
'As a real Christian, I stay as far away from catholicism as I can. It does not obey Scripture at all, and they don’t even know what Scripture says. Just because some people call themselves Christians doesn’t mean they are.
I have looked up the books. Apparently, there are more than 7:
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1 Esdras
2 Esdras
Tobit
Judith
Additions to the Book of Esther
Wisdom of Solomon
Prologue to Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach
Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach
Baruch
Letter of Jeremiah
Prayer of Azariah
Susanna
Bel and the Dragon
Prayer of Manasseh
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
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Books that were not canonized (made part of the Bible) are for good reason. Here are some reasons why the [catholic] apocrypha was not canonized.
[Comments in brackets and italics are mine]:
“The Roman Catholic Church did not officially canonize the Apocrypha until the Council of Trent (1546 AD). This was in part because the Apocrypha contained material which supported certain Catholic doctrines, such as purgatory, praying for the dead, and the treasury of merit.” [which either contradicts Scripture or where Scripture outright condemns them.]
“Not one of them is in the Hebrew language, which was alone used by the inspired historians and poets of the Old Testament.”
“Not one of the writers lays any claim to inspiration.” [That is, being inspired by the Holy Spirit, because “all Scripture is God-breathed” 2 Timothy 3:16]
“These books were never acknowledged as sacred Scriptures by the Jewish Church, and therefore were never sanctioned by our Lord.”
“They were not allowed a place among the sacred books, during the first four centuries of the Christian Church.”
“They contain fabulous statements, and statements which contradict not only the canonical Scriptures, but themselves; as when, in the two Books of Maccabees, Antiochus Epiphanes is made to die three different deaths in as many different places.”
“The Apocrypha inculcates doctrines at variance with the Bible, such as prayers for the dead and sinless perfection.” [Prayers for the dead are forbidden in Scripture, and there is no such thing as sinless perfection in humans. This is against Scripture. Only God is sinless and perfect].
“The apocrypha contains offensive materials unbecoming of God's authorship.”
“It teaches immoral practices, such as lying, suicide, assassination and magical incantation.” [All these are sins that are forbidden in Scripture].
“The apocryphal books themselves make reference to what we call the Silent 400 Years, where there was no prophets of God to write inspired materials.” [There is no way that man can know what happened in those 400 years between the Old and the New Testaments because God did not reveal it to anyone.]
“Josephus rejected the apocryphal books as inspired and this reflected Jewish thought at the time of Jesus.”
“The Manual of Discipline in the Dead Sea Scrolls rejected the apocrypha as inspired.”
“The Council of Jamnia held the same view and rejected the apocrypha as inspired.”
“Although it was occasionally quoted in early church writings, it was nowhere accepted in a canon. Melito (AD 170) and Origen rejected the Apocrypha, (Eccl. Hist. VI. 25, Eusebius) as does the Muratorian Canon.”
“Jerome vigorously resisted including the Apocrypha in his Latin Vulgate Version (400 AD), but was overruled. As a result, the standard Roman Catholic Bible throughout the medieval period contained it. Thus, it gradually came to be revered by the average clergyman. Still, many medieval Catholic scholars realized that it was not inspired.”
“The terms ‘protocanonical’ and ‘deuterocanonical’ are used by Catholics to signify respectively those books of Scripture that were received by the entire Church from the beginning as inspired, and those whose inspiration came to be recognized later, after the matter had been disputed by certain Fathers and local churches. [speaking of which, Scripture commands that we are not to call anyone “Father” except our biological father. Matthew 23:9]
“Pope Damasus (366-384) authorized Jerome to translate the Latin Vulgate. The Council of Carthage declared this translation as ‘the infallible and authentic Bible.’ Jerome was the first to describe the extra 7 Old Testament books as the "Apocrypha" (doubtful authenticity). Needless to say, Jerome's Latin Vulgate did not include the Apocrypha.”
“Cyril (born about A.D. 315) - ‘Read the divine Scriptures - namely, the 22 books of the Old Testament which the 72 interpreters translated’ (the Septuagint)”
“The apocrypha wasn't included at first in the Septuagint, but was appended by the Alexandrian Jews, and was not listed in any of the catalogues of the inspired books till the 4th century.”
“Hilary (bishop of Poictiers, 350 A.D.) rejected the apocrypha (Prologue to the Psalms, Sec. 15)”
“Epiphanius (the great opposer of heresy, 360 A.D.) rejected them all. Referring to Wisdom of Solomon & book of Jesus Sirach, he said ‘These indeed are useful books & profitable, but they are not placed in the number of the canonical.’"
(Source: Roman Catholic and Orthodox Faith Examined and
The Apocrypha)
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I respectfully and strongly advise you to stay away from any books that are not canonized. They’re lies and they’re poison.
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