[HarleyD]

Yes I agree. The only reason the Apocrypha was included in scripture in the late 1500s by the Council of Trent is because it supported the Catholic corrupt doctrines such as:

1) Purgatory: 2 Maccabees 12:43-45, 2.000 pieces of silver were sent to Jerusalem for a sin-offering...Whereupon he made reconciliation for the dead, that they might be delivered from sin.

2) Indulgences-Salvation by works: Ecclesiasticus 3:30, Water will quench a flaming fire, and alms maketh atonement for sin. Tobit 12:8-9, 17, It is better to give alms than to lay up gold; for alms doth deliver from death, and shall purge away all sin.

3) Exorcism: Tobit 6:5-8, If the Devil, or an evil spirit troubles anyone, they can be driven away by making a smoke of the heart, liver, and gall of a fish...and the Devil will smell it, and flee away, and never come again anymore.

4) Immaculate Conception: Wisdom 8:19-20, And I was a witty child and had received a good soul. And whereas I was more good, I came to a body undefiled.

These are corrupt doctrine but never the less our Catholic friend have been snookered. It is no wonder that no inspired scripture ever referenced the Apocrypha's writings. And since it does reference a Cretan saying, that says something indeed.

[Salvation]

These are not corrupt. Although indulgences and money were connected at one time — the money is not accepted today.

You also forgot the Book of James — faith AND works

The purgatory reference you quote is only one. There are many more — what will you say, when at the moment of your death you discover you are in Purgatory?

The Immaculate Conception was validated through the witness of a young girl, St. Bernadette, to her Bishop. Please read about her.

Speaking in generalities like that can cause trouble, no?

PS. We are not snookered! LOL!