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Originally Posted by Slepsog4
The presence of a book in a library or collection does not mean agreement. I have many books in my personal library as resources to study cults and world religions. Their presence is not an endorsement.
And if the Qumran community was heretical their collection proves even less.
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Honestly, this argument would convince me more if the Deuterocanon were bound in a separate volume apart from the rest of the LXX, and to be quite honest we could apply your same standard to all the books in the LXX including the ones Protestants accept. Why would the Jews spend so much time copying the Deuterocanon in the LXX when they did not consider them inspired? Sirach alone would take weeks to copy by hand as would both books of the Maccabees.