[JCBreckenridge]

Then why do you tear parts out?

[Boogieman]

I didn’t tear anything out. I read the Apocrypha with an open mind, just like I read the Scriptures, and most of the pseudoepigraphia and other related literature. The divine nature of the OT and NT is self-evident, while the others are, at best, partially, and at worst wholly the uninspired work of men.

If there is some vital divine message that is in those other works that I failed to detect, then I am comfortable that God, for His reasons, chose not to reveal it to me.

[Elsie]

Then why do you tear parts out?

The same reason Catholicism stuffs things in?