Yes, I look forward to reading those lost works one day as well.
I read through the Apocrypha a number of years ago (works included in the Catholic Bible), and they were interesting "books." But, I could see why they weren't included in our canonical Bibles handed down from the church fathers dating back to Wycliffe I believe. Some of the teachings and ideas in the Apocrypha were not in line with core Christian doctrine and an evangelical perspective. They are valuable works of literature, though.
I read through the Apocrypha a number of years ago (works included in the Catholic Bible), and they were interesting "books." But, I could see why they weren't included in our canonical Bibles handed down from the church fathers dating back to Wycliffe I believe. Some of the teachings and ideas in the Apocrypha were not in line with core Christian doctrine and an evangelical perspective. They are valuable works of literature, though.
In the ot often we hear references in scriptire to other scriptire that we don’t have anymore remeber again Jerusalem was sacked and burned to the ground a second time in ad 67-70 and again tbier treasires and writings were burned and destroyed but again many of the writings were destroyed my position is that was always part of Gods plan and what we do have is what we need and the Bible isn’t lacking any information
often the books are repetetive teaching the same principles t be ughout the doctrinal points of God repentance and good living in his honor loving in deed and truth our fellow man in his name for his glory but they all use thier own words sayong the same things
ive always been concerned with fraud in some of those texts because the history can’t be traced because of some of those world events like Jerusalems destruction repetitively when that happens a lot of artifacts and history and writings were lost but it’s isn’t as if we’re missing anything I don’t feel
for instance Jude quotes from the book of Enoch but the book of Enoch was found in an Ethiopian cave and there are several different versions of it and no one can authenticate any of them firther back than a few centuries nowhere near where the gospels and epistles are scientifically dated and historically referenced and traced as authentic
so the book of Enoch was a real book at some point I just don’t think I trust a document found 1700 years after Christ and was only 30 percent intact when found the rest is people “figuring out “what was in between the missing words of the text found in Ethiopia
what im saying is while Enoch did write a book I don’t think it’s the same book we have with several versions the main reason is it conflicts with the scripture in the Bible several times but it’s just an opinion of one person some take those texts as authentic which God knows either way
I’m really confident that the Bible is true and authentic but not so much on the apocrypha or some of the other old writings attributed to biblical text
Clements letter is one text i believe is authentic but isnt essential for anyone to read just supports a lot of Paul’s writings also possibly Paul’s apocalypse seems authentic tic not sure though . there were a lot of people writing these epistles and letters and they were circulated among all the churches just like the bible allows for today it really is just a collection of those authenticated writings of Jesus apostles and followers and the prophets before all in one book one place
i love the Bible it is the truth
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