1.3 The books commonly called the Apocrypha, not being of divine inspiration, are not part of the canon of Scripture; and therefore are of no authority in the Church of God, nor to be any otherwise approved, or made use of, than other human writings.
What is the Apocrypha?
The Apocrypha means hidden books in the Greek. It was hard to find information on the internet about when the books were actually written. This is partly due to the fact that the definition of what the Apocrypha really is has different meanings depending on who you are. Prior to my little bit of research, I only knew that the Catholics added extra books to their Bibles called the Apocrypha and that these books were manmade or not inspired by God. Did you know that from 1611 - 1885 the King James Bible actually contained the books of the Apocrypha? The Catholics also added a version of the Apocrypha into their Bibles in AD 385.
What are the books that make up the Apocrypha in the 1611 KJV?
1 Esdras
2 Esdras
Tobit
Judith
Esther, additions to the book of
Wisdom of Solomon
Ecclesiasticus
Baruch
A Letter of Jeremiah
Prayer of Azariah (the Song of the Three Children)
Susanna
Bel and the Dragon
Prayer of Manasseh
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
There are inconsistencies in some of the books of the Apocrypha with the rest of our accepted canon of Scripture. It is also interesting that neither Jesus nor the Apostles ever quoted from the Apocrypha. What makes this even more interesting is that the Septuagint (Greek) translation of the OT was quoted by Jesus and the apostles because the world language of the day was Greek and the Septuagint contained books of the Apocrypha. So the translation of the Bible that Jesus and the apostles quoted from contained the Apocrypha which they never quoted from even once.
That one book contained in Apocrypha collection has errors, does not mean that all have errors. Yet at this point, I can do no other than accept by faith that the Christian forebears did study and prove more surely that the Apocrypha is not of divine inspiration.
What is the Apocrypha?
The Apocrypha means hidden books in the Greek. It was hard to find information on the internet about when the books were actually written. This is partly due to the fact that the definition of what the Apocrypha really is has different meanings depending on who you are. Prior to my little bit of research, I only knew that the Catholics added extra books to their Bibles called the Apocrypha and that these books were manmade or not inspired by God. Did you know that from 1611 - 1885 the King James Bible actually contained the books of the Apocrypha? The Catholics also added a version of the Apocrypha into their Bibles in AD 385.
What are the books that make up the Apocrypha in the 1611 KJV?
1 Esdras
2 Esdras
Tobit
Judith
Esther, additions to the book of
Wisdom of Solomon
Ecclesiasticus
Baruch
A Letter of Jeremiah
Prayer of Azariah (the Song of the Three Children)
Susanna
Bel and the Dragon
Prayer of Manasseh
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
There are inconsistencies in some of the books of the Apocrypha with the rest of our accepted canon of Scripture. It is also interesting that neither Jesus nor the Apostles ever quoted from the Apocrypha. What makes this even more interesting is that the Septuagint (Greek) translation of the OT was quoted by Jesus and the apostles because the world language of the day was Greek and the Septuagint contained books of the Apocrypha. So the translation of the Bible that Jesus and the apostles quoted from contained the Apocrypha which they never quoted from even once.
That one book contained in Apocrypha collection has errors, does not mean that all have errors. Yet at this point, I can do no other than accept by faith that the Christian forebears did study and prove more surely that the Apocrypha is not of divine inspiration.
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