The apocryphal gospels

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To my Bible college knowledge the Bible wasn't final until the reformation when the Catholic books were excluded and a number of other books that were considered.
 

Karlon

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the apocrahpyl writings are not missing because they were never supposed to be in the Bible in the 1st place. i said that because they are often represented as the "missing books". they were written by men from their own minds, not the Holy Spirit. 2nd Peter 1:20,21 & 2nd Thessalonians 3:16,17 clarify that. the Holy Spirit authored the Bible. another way to view it is how could God allow writings by men to be in the Bible when all of mankind is imperfect?
 

Magenta

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To my Bible college knowledge the Bible wasn't final until the reformation when the
Catholic books were excluded and a number of other books that were considered.
Catholic books excluded? No. They were never considered inspired in the
first place. The RCC includes them to prop up their extra Biblical traditions.
Listen to the RCC and you will be led astray... as you already have been.
 
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I have the Book of Jasher which the Bible mentions more than once, but I wouldn’t own The Archko Volume, which is like a fantastical tabloid.
 

soberxp

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You can imagine the wrath of theologians when the book of Enoch talked about a special heavenly zone for unbelievers to live in.

But I believe what is written in this book, since God knows that people are not perfect, can't God tolerate some imperfect people? Are all unbelievers hopeless?? They were just deceived by the world's lies.Even Christians or Catholics are deceived by the lies of the world.
 

soberxp

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But we are not meant to be fooled by lies.
If you understand the meaning of life more than anything else,

The Gospel of Matthew 18:12
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?