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Apocrypha
Is a series of books known as the Apocrypha. Now these books are books that come from a specific period of time. The Old Testament canon was closed about 400 B.C., the time of Ezra. The New Testament was opened about 50 A.D., so you have a period of about 450 years in which there was no writing. When John the Baptist appeared on the scene prior to the ministry of Jesus Christ, he was the, he was the voice that broke 400 years of silence.
But during that 400-year period, all kinds of books appeared, that claimed to be authoritative books authored by God. In fact, you might be interested to know that there are even many, many such books during the New Testament era in the first century that were written, and - there was the Gospel of Peter, and all different things; the Coptic narrative, a lot of books, that were supposedly written by Paul or Peter, and they’re all false. Well, during that inter-Testamental period, there were a series of books written.
These books were never accepted by the general church consciousness, because it was apparent they were not inspired. They are filled with historical error; in other words, their datings, and so forth, are wrong, inconsistent with what we know to be historical. They are filled with theological error. They are filled with spiritual and moral error. It is apparent to the most cursory reader of those books that they don’t match up. And so the church never recognized them at all. Now, I’m not sure exactly why the Catholic Church inserted them in.
But at some point in time, and I can’t even remember what the council was, they put them back in to the center of the Bible; but they have never really stood the test of inspiration. They are not authored by the apostles. They’re Bel and the Dragon, Esdras, First, Second and Third Maccabees. They’re not apostolic writings, and they’re not Old Testament prophets either, so they don’t fit any of the criteria. And as I say, the quality of the book does not match the standard of inspired literature.
AUDIENCE: Would it go back to the Catholic traditionalism that you spoke of earlier?
JOHN: Yes. Oh, yeah. They inserted them at some point, which at this juncture, I can’t recall the specific year. Right, but again, you see, the problem with the system - and keep this in mind. All systems that are deviants of Christianity build their system on two bases: the Bible, plus something else. Okay? If it’s Christian Science, it’s the Bible plus Mary Baker Eddy Patterson Glover Frey. She had a problem, Mary Baker Eddy. If it’s Mormonism, it’s the Bible plus Joseph Smith. So, it doesn’t matter what it is. It’s the Bible plus Annie Besant, “Judge” Rutherford, Mr. and Mrs. Fillmore, Madame Blavatsky, somebody.
It’s somebody. Always the Bible, plus; the Bible, plus; the Bible, plus.
And that’s what happened in the Roman system. It was the Bible, plus the church councils, plus the traditions, plus the papal bulls, and so forth. And whenever you do that, you give to man the right to affirm what is divine truth, you just utterly create chaos.
So, Christian scholars today just universally reject the validity of the Apocrypha as an inspired text. But I might add, once in a while I’ll quote something out of there, ’cause it does give us insight into the historical period there.
Some of the things that are historical are helpful. Yes
Overall, no.
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Apocrapha, maccabees, no new Revelation, "do not add to this book" includes all of Scripture<<
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