Your posts are so filled with
lies and
half-truths that it is
difficult to know where to begin.
Suffice it to say - you
NEVER seem to do your
homework properly . . .
First of all - ;let's call the Books by their
proper name - the
Deuterocanonical Books.
"Apocrypha" refers to many
extrabiblical writings that are
NOT Scripture.
Let's pick through the
lies at
random . . .
LIE #1:
"The Apocrypha was not officially accepted by the Catholic Church at a universal council until 1546 at the Council of Trent."
This is a
LIE of
gargantuan proportions. the Deuterocanonicals were
ALWAYS part of the Catholic Canon of Scripture. As a matter of fact - they were part of the
OPEN Jewish Canon during the
1st century. They weren't
ejected until the
2nd century.
Looks like its time for a
history lesson . . .
- The
Synod of Rome (382) is where the canon was first formally identified.
- It was confirmed at the
Synod of Hippo eleven years later
(393).
- At the
Council (or Synod) of Carthage (397), it was yet again confirmed. The bishops wrote at the end of their document,
"But let Church beyond sea (Rome) be consulted about confirming this canon". There were 44 bishops, including St. Augustine who signed the document.
- 7 years later, in
405, in a letter from
Pope Innocent I to Exsuperius, Bishop of Toulouse, he reiterated the canon.
- 14 years after that, at the
2nd Council (Synod) of Carthage (419) the canon was again formally confirmed.
-
The Canon of Scripture was
officially closed at the
Council of Trent in the 16th century because of the
perversions happening within
Protestantism and the random
editing and
deleting of books from the Canon.
It can be shown from the almost
200 references to the 7 Deuterocanonical Books on the pages of the
New Testament that
Jesus and the NT writers
studied from these Books.
Half-Truth #1:
"The "oracles of God" were given to the Jews (Rom. 3:2) and they rejected the Old Testament Apocrypha as part of this inspired revelation. "
Absolute
nonsense.
About
40 years after Jesus died and rose from the dead,
Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. The
Temple was desecrated and completely
destroyed. Jesus
foretold that this was going to happen in
Mark 13: 1‐4.
Not long after this, a group of
Rabbis asked permission from the Roman authorities to hold a
Rabbinical school at
Jabneh (or Jamnia). One of the things discussed was use of the
Greek translation of the
OT (the Septuagint) by early Christians.
At this gathering, they decided to eject
7 Books (and portions of
Esther and
Daniel) that they felt were
"uninspired." They provided a
new Greek translation because the early Christians were
converting the Jews using the Septuagint, which was compiled about
200 years
before the birth of Christ.
The
main advocate for
removing the 7 Deuterocanonical Books was
Rabbi Akiva, who was also known for proclaiming that a man named
Simon Bar Kohkba was the
"real Messiah" during the
2nd Jewish Revolt (circa 132 AD).
So,
Luther chose to go with a
POST-Christ, POST-Temple Canon of Scripture that was declared by a
FALSE Prophet who proclaimed a
FALSE “Christ”. This became the official
Protestant Canon.
