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To: Natural Law

Paul cited a Cretan when he wrote, “One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

But was he saying the Cretan was a prophet of God, and his saying inspired? Not hardly.

There are lists that try to show that a phrase found in the NT draws from the Apocrypha, yet nowhere does Jesus or an Apostle use a writing from the Apocrypha for authority.

“44Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46and said to them, “Thus it is written...”

See this link for the times that “It is written” can be found - not all 120 references are applicable, but most are:

http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=written&t=ESV&csr=9&sf=5

You won’t find the Apocrypha cited.


240 posted on 11/02/2011 12:51:01 PM PDT by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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To: Mr Rogers

What about the citations of Enoch and the Testament of Moses in the Book of Jude?

Why don’t you add them to your Bible?


243 posted on 11/02/2011 1:00:24 PM PDT by rzman21
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To: Mr Rogers
"You won’t find the Apocrypha cited."

As one who has studied both the New Testament and the Deuterocanonicals I am aware of many, many parallels, idioms and outright quotations. I'm afraid we are going to have to agree to disagree, but the contention that these 7 books and a number of additions to other Old Testament books were not included in any of the Jewish Canons, did not exist in Hebrew or Aramaic and were not familiar to Jesus and the Apostles is nonsense.

247 posted on 11/02/2011 1:29:05 PM PDT by Natural Law (Transubstantiation - Change we can believe in.)
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