God had a promise of gathering his book.
And as proven by history, it was
indeed gathered, firstly with the Old Testament as an already
established scripture before the compilation of new testament canons in
codex form as codex sinaiticus, vaticanus and alexandrinus during the 4th-5th century AD. It was then 66 books though the Apochrypa were already existing then but was not yet part of the scriptures til 16th century at the council of Trent. This piece of information tells us that Apochrypa was not canon of the scriptures yet during 4th-16th
century AD which suddenly becomes scriptural due to the correctness of
those at the council of Trent and errancy of the catholic’s fathers who
have opted not to include the Apochrypa.
Pr 30:6 “Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”It cannot be that the word of god given initially to Israel was written in Greek bec they were not Greeks whereas Apochrypa has not any proof of Hebrew origin at all declarative of its non-scriptural structure. APOCHRYPA WAS GREEK.
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Apocrypha (Greek apokryphos, “hidden”), word coined by the 5th-century biblical scholar Saint Jerome for the biblical books received by the church of his time as part of the Greek version of the Old Testament (see Septuagint), but that were not included in the Hebrew Bible.
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Dead Sea Scrolls, collection of more than 700 Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek manuscripts discovered in a group of caves near Khirbat Qumrān in Jordan, at the northwestern end of the Dead Sea. The leather and papyrus scrolls, which survive in varying states of preservation, came to light in a series of archaeological finds that began in 1947. The manuscripts have been attributed to members of a previously unknown Jewish brotherhood. The scrolls include manuals of discipline, hymnbooks, biblical commentaries, and apocalyptic writings; two of the oldest known copies of the Book of Isaiah, almost wholly intact; and fragments of every book in the Old Testament except that of Esther. Among the latter is a fanciful paraphrase of the Book of Genesis. Also found were texts, in the original languages, of several books of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha. These texts—none of which was included in the Hebrew canon of the Bible—are Tobit, Sirach, Jubilees, portions of Enoch, and the Testament of Levi, hitherto known only in early Greek, Syriac, Latin, and Ethiopic versions.
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Apochrypa in its original languages was written either in early Greek, Syriac, Latin and Ethiopic versions but never in Hebrew language. Apochrypa was not Hebrew texts therefore was not a Judaic document bec the bible tells us that only the Jews were god’s people then, so by logic it must be that god delivers his words to them in Hebrew and not with other else.
The Apochrypa was only accepted and canonized at the council of trent 16th century AD.
| Deuterocanonical Books, writings included in the Roman Catholic
canon of the Bible, and—with certain exceptions—in the canon of the
Orthodox Church, but not in the Hebrew canon (see Canon). They
were definitively introduced into the Roman Catholic canon by the
Council of Trent in 1546. Until that time, their place in the Bible had
been disputed for about 12 centuries.The Council of Trent decreed that
the authentic canon was to be determined by what had been included in
the Latin Vulgate translation of the Old Testament. The Vulgate
Old Testament, in part a translation of the Greek Septuagint, which was
in part an original translation by Saint Jerome of the Hebrew
Scriptures, included certain books and parts of books that Jews and most
Protestants today know as the Apocrypha. Catholics reserve
that term for the works that Protestants call the pseudepigrapha—books
that stand entirely outside the biblical canon.Many Jewish scholars
accepted the books now considered deuterocanonical (a term derived from Greek words meaning “second canon”) until about ad 90. Then the Council of Jamnia ruled them to be outside the authentic Hebrew canon. The early Christian church and the Septuagint also accepted these books as part of the Old Testament. The
books excluded by the Hebrew canon but included in the Septuagint and
Vulgate are Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, Tobit, Sirach
(Ecclesiasticus, not to be confused with the Book of Ecclesiastes),
Baruch, and 1 and 2 Maccabees. The Council of Trent designated these
books, and parts of Esther and Daniel, deuterocanonical. As the minutes of the council make clear, however, the prefix deutero-was
not intended to indicate a secondary canonical status for this
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IT WAS BY CATHOLICS WHO DECIDED THE APOCHRYPA AS NOT CANONICAL AT THE COUNCIL OF JAMNIA THEN IT WAS ALSO BY THEM THAT LATER ON DECIDED IT OTHERWISE AT THE COUNCIL OF TRENT. THERE SEEMS TO BE AN EVIDENT STRIFE AND CONFUSION BETWEEN THE TWO COUNCILS, IS IT NOT? 1C 14:33 “For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.” These prove that the Apochrypa is a later addition to the already gathered 66 books of the bible and not a genuine scripture, firstly bec it was Greek, secondly bec it is not biblically moral. It contradicted the bible. Read on for the contradictions. |
The idea in Israel of a sacred book dates at least from 621 BC. During the reform of Josiah, king of Judah, when the temple was being repaired, the high priest Hilkiah discovered “the book of the law” (see 2 Kings 22). The scroll was probably the central part of the present Book of Deuteronomy, but what is important is the authority that was ascribed to it. More reverence was paid to the text read by Ezra, the Hebrew priest and scribe, to the community at the end of the 5th century bc (see Nehemiah 8).
The Hebrew Bible became Holy Scripture in three stages. The sequence corresponds to the three parts of the Hebrew canon: the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings. On the basis of external evidence it seems clear that the Torah, or Law, became Scripture between the end of the Babylonian exile (538 BC) and the separation of the Samaritans from Judaism, probably by 300 bc. The Samaritans recognized only the Torah as their Bible.
The second stage was the canonization of the Nebiim (Prophets). As the superscriptions to the prophetic books indicate, the recorded words of the prophets came to be considered the word of God. For all practical purposes the second part of the Hebrew canon was closed by the end of the 3rd century, not long before 200 BC.
In the meantime other books were being compiled, written, and used in worship and study. By the time the Book of Sirach was written (circa 180 bc), an idea of a tripartite Bible had developed. The contents of the third part, the Ketubim (Writings), remained somewhat fluid in Judaism until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in AD 70. By the end of the 1st century ad the rabbis in Palestine had established the final list.
Both positive and negative forces were at work in the process of canonization. On the one hand, most of the decisions had already been made in practice: The Law, the Prophets, and most of the Writings had been serving as Scripture for centuries. Controversy developed around only a few books in the Writings, such as Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon (Songs). On the other hand, many other religious books, also claiming to be the word of God, were being written and circulated. These included the books in the present Protestant Apocrypha, some of the New Testament books, and many others. Consequently, the official action of establishing a Bible took place in response to a theological question: According to which books would Judaism define itself and its relationship to God?
The second canon—what is now the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament—arose first as a translation of the earlier Hebrew books into Greek.
The process began in the 3rd century BC outside of Palestine, because Jewish communities in Egypt and elsewhere needed the Scriptures in the language of their culture. The additional books in this Bible, including supplements to older books, arose for the most part among such non-Palestinian Jewish communities. By the end of the 1st century ad, when the earliest Christian writings were being collected and disseminated, two versions of Scripture from Judaism were already in existence: the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Old Testament (known as the Septuagint). The Hebrew Bible, however, was the official standard of belief and practice; no evidence indicates that an official list of Greek Scriptures ever existed in Judaism. The additional books of the Septuagint were only given official recognition in Christianity. The writings of the early Fathers of the Church contain numerous different lists, but it is clear that the longer Greek Old Testament prevailed.
The last major step in the history of the Christian canon took place during the Protestant Reformation. When Martin Luther translated the Bible into German, he rediscovered what others—notably St. Jerome, the 4th-century biblical scholar—had known: that the Old Testament had originated in Hebrew. He removed from his Old Testament the books that were not in the Bible of Judaism and established them as the Apocrypha. This step was an effort to return to the presumed earliest—and therefore best—text and canon, and to establish in opposition to the authority of the church the authority of that older version of the Bible.
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“When Martin Luther translated the Bible into German, he rediscovered what others—notably St. Jerome, the 4th-century biblical scholar—had known: that the Old Testament had originated in Hebrew. He removed from his Old Testament the books that were not in the Bible of Judaism and established them as the Apocrypha. This step was an effort to return to the presumed earliest—and therefore best—text and canon, and to establish in opposition to the authority of the church the authority of that older version of the Bible.”
This act of Martin Luther removing the apochrypa from the bible bec of the reason of its linguistic discrepancy with the old testament as it is greek whereas Judaic books were Hebrew, is sensible and justified. Can the old testament Jews comprehend Greek for them to have Greek apochrypa?
BUT THEN Apochrypa by the stubbornness of catholics was incorporated to their bible (not all bibles) during a convention in trent wherein they decided, that it is scriptural, but will such act redeem the fact that it was not scriptural 4th-16th century AD? Is that what god said as his way of gathering his book or was it only a demonic manipulation for deception? This is a clear hint that it was just an addition to authentic canons. But in order to really confirm it is to test or proves the veracity of its words if indeed it conforms to biblical truth bec if it fails the test of the scripture then it is false and unscriptural. It must be that if it is an authentic canon then it must profess no contradiction with the scriptures to be canonical.
1Jn 4:1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
It is imperative then to test any claim if it is indeed pure good without any trace of evil.
Lam 3:38 “Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?”
Let’s test it then.
- 1. APOCHRYPA-WISDOM 8:16 “when I come home to WISDOM I will find contentment bec THERE IS NO CONFLICT OR PAIN IN LIVING WITH HER ONLY HAPPINESS AND JOY.”
BIBLE-Ec 1:17 “And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
Ec 1:18 FOR IN MUCH WISDOM IS MUCH GRIEF and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
The Apochrypa: WITH WISDOM “ONLY” HAPPINESS AND JOY
The bible:FOR IN MUCH WISDOM IS MUCH GRIEF
It’s a clear contradiction, also this,
- 2. APOCHRYPA-WISDOM 10:17 “she rewarded god’s people for their hardships. She guided them a miraculous journey. She gave them SHADE DURING THE DAY AND BRILLIANT STARLIGHT AT NIGHT. She led them thru the deep waters of the red sea.”
It contradicts this.
BIBLE-Neh 9:12 “Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.”
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire.
As you can see god guided their journey not by brilliant starlight but by a pillar of fire. A huge breach of discrepancy, is it not?
- 3. APOCHRYPA-TOBIT 13:16-17 “Jerusalem will be rebuilt and will be his home forever etc… your gates will be built with sapphires and emeralds and all your walls with precious stones. Your towers will be made of gold and their fortifications pure gold. YOUR STREETS WILL BE PAVED WITH RUBIES AND PRECIOUS JEWELS.”
BIBLE-Rev 21:21 “And the twelve gates [were] twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city [was] pure gold, as it were transparent glass.”
and the street of the city [was] pure gold
Pure gold? It means it is not mixed with anything as rubies and precious jewels.
How about this?
- 4. APOCHRYPA-ESTHER 4:4-5 “you are the lord of all and there is no one who can stand against you. YOU KNOW ALL THINGS.”
BIBLE-Jer 19:5 “They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire [for] burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake [it], neither came [it] into my mind:
Jer 19:6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.”
neither came [it] into my mind? How can this support the “you know all things” doctrine?
How about this also?
- 5. APOCHRYPA-WISDOM OF SOLOMON 1:13 “God did not invent death and when living creatures die it gives him no pleasure.”
He did bec all things were of him.
BIBLE-1C 8:6 “But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him.”
How did death come into being if it was not created?
Re 4:11 “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
for thou hast created all things
The apochrypa says wisdom was created.
- 6. APOCHRYPA-SIRACH 1:4,9 “Wisdom was created before anything else…etc… the Lord himself created wisdom.”
BIBLE-Pr 8:12 “I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Pr 8:23 I was brought forth (nacak in Hebrew: to pour out)from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.”
“I was brought forth” isnot made or created. WISDOM is one of the exceptions of all things created bec it is specified that it is not created whereas death has no specifications likewise, therefore it belongs to the category of all things created.
- 7. APOCHRYPA-TOBIT 4:15 “do not drink so much wine that you get drunk and do not let drinking become a habit.”
BIBLE-Pr 23:31 “Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.
Pr 23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Pr 20:1 “Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.”
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red? If you are prohibited to even look then how will you drink it?
Fact is, bishops have total prohibition to it.
1Ti 3:2 “A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1Ti 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;”
Not given to wine
Bec bishops have one mind with all Christians therefore all Christians have total prohibition regarding intoxicant intake.
Phl 2:1 “If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
Phl 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.”
that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind
they have the same rule.
Phl 3:16 “Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.”
What is that same rule?
Not given to wine
How about christ’s miracle turning water into wine?
Mt 9:17 “Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.”
New wine implies there is also old wine, a preserved fermented wine or an intoxicant. Wine has two categories, an intoxicating wine or an old wine and a non-intoxicant or the new wine, like today, we have non-alcoholic wine and an alcoholic wine. Christ knowing Pr 23:31, will he be making intoxicating wine to contradicts it?
- 8. APOCHRYPA-WISDOM 5:15, 18 “the righteous live on forever…etc…Righteousness will be his armor, genuine justice will be his helmet, holiness will be his invincible shield.”
Incongruent with this:
BIBLE- Eph 6:16 “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:”
APOCHRYPA: HELMET: JUSTICE
SHIELD: HOLINESS
BIBLE: HELMET: SALVATIONSHIELD: FAITH
And so on and so forth of blatant exhibit of numerous Apochrypal blunder…
Catholics have ridiculously included these to their faith as it is also their source of the Purgatory doctrine. They incorporated it to their faith as an insignia of their falsehood.
They deceive as they were also deceived by it but never wondering why Jesus or the apostles never at any instance had any mention in reference to it. Jesus kept referring to the Hebrew texts, the law and the psalms and the prophets etc… but never at an instance hinted its approval of the Greek Apochrypal books.
Why?
Bec it is Greek documents not meant for Israel and Christians alike. It was never part of the Hebrew bible given to the Jews bec as I said, how will they read Greek being Hebrews as that?
They might say, it was only added later when the Septuagint was made, or when the Hebrew old testament was Hellenized or made Greek implyingly, it was added for Greek speaking Jews.
Then how about Hebrew only speaking jews-THE MAJORITY OF JEWS, was it not also for them? Then where was the Hebrew Apochrypa for them then?
If there was no Hebrew Apochrypa then how would God convey his truth to whom he initially intended his words to –ALL the Israelites?
Ro 9:4 “Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law , and the service [of God], and the promises;
Ro 9:5 Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.”
to whom [pertaineth] the giving of the law
to whom [pertaineth] the service [of God]
Eph 2:11 “Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
Eph 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:”
Gentiles, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world
and without God in the world
Gentiles as greeks didn’t do
service to god as they didn’t have god in the world as the verses above
have proven, therefore god will not send them a greek old testament
scripture bec they were not doing god service yet. He was not God to
them. THIS MEANS THAT ONLY JEWS WERE PEOPLE OF GOD THEN therefore It
must be that god’s “old testament” books were all written in Hebrew bec
it was then initially intended FOR ALL JEWS.
2Ki 5:15 “And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that [there is] no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.”
now I know that [there is] no God in all the earth, but in Israel
Apochrypa being greek prove that it is not scriptural. The greek translation of the old testament, the Septuagint meant for greek speaking jews were just a translation from Hebrew therefore it must be also that if the Apochrypa was written initially for Israel then it must have Hebrew copies and/or origin, which it lacked, therefore explicitly confirming its incongruence to old testament canons.
Ps 81:13 “Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
How will non-greek speaking jews hearkened to god’s greek Apochrypa then?
Fact is, Apochrypa was just an addition to Hebrew scriptures.
Septuagint, name given the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. The term is derived from the Latin word septuaginta (“seventy”; hence, the customary abbreviation LXX), which refers to the 70 (or 72) translators who were once believed to have been appointed by the Jewish high priest of the time to render the Hebrew Bible into Greek at the behest of the Hellenistic emperor Ptolemy II.
The legend of the 70 translators contains an element of truth, for the Torah (the five books of Moses—Genesis to Deuteronomy) probably had been translated into Greek by the 3rd century bc to serve the needs of Greek-speaking Jews outside Palestine who were no longer able to read their Scriptures in the original Hebrew. The translation of the remaining books of the Hebrew Old Testament, the addition to it of books and parts of books (the Apocrypha), and the final production of the Greek Old Testament as the Bible of the early Christian church form a very complicated history. Because the Septuagint, rather than the Hebrew text, became the Bible of the early church, other Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek were made by the 3rd century; these are extant only in fragments, and their history is even more obscure than that of the Septuagint.
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“The translation of the remaining books of the Hebrew Old Testament, the addition to it of books and parts of books (the Apocrypha), and the final production of the Greek Old Testament as the Bible of the early Christian church form a very complicated history.”
There is no convincing affiliation of the Apochrypa with the bible in terms of doctrinal harmony and in linguistic compliance, and as testified to by history, it was only an addition to the Old Testament when it was Hellenized therefore it is wrong to canonize such when in essence it lacked validity.
Ezk 13:7 Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith [it]; albeit I have not spoken?
Ezk 13:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am] against you, saith the Lord GOD.”
“whereas ye say The LORD saith it albeit I have not spoken”
Think of that.Lastly,
WHY IS THE APOCHRYPA CANONICAL FOLKS? WHAT MAKES IT CANONICAL?
Ask your priests and apologists, catholics, your reasons why, or better yet, consider the reasons why it is not then weigh it yourselves. I have this to say though, watch what you believe and what you have to believe! It might be poison in sweet coats!
Eph 4:14 “That we [henceforth] be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
Eph 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ:”
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