[ThomasMore]

You are very well versed. 99.9% of the Christians out there are not. They don't even know these apocryphal writings exist. Their ignorance is bliss.

If you are talking about the deutercanonicals as apocrypha; sorry, I accept them as scripture, as did the church up until the reformation.

I realize we will disagree on this fact, but without an organic authority capable of stating that these writings are the inerrant word of God, we have nothing more than a bunch of ancient MSS.

[jboot]

If you are talking about the deutercanonicals as apocrypha

Actually, I was rather harsh in pursuit of a point and should rephrase myself: although I don't consider the deutercanonicals to have the same weight as the common Protestant canon, neither do I find them to be spurious or even necessarily uninspired. (Here comes the swarm! I'm on your side, guys!) The lack of weightiness is a result of their omission from the Hebrew scripture.

[RnMomof7]

If you are talking about the deutercanonicals as apocrypha; sorry, I accept them as scripture, as did the church up until the reformation.

As you know they were not always accepted by the church as doctrinal , but as holy writings, even Jerome did not want them in the canon. But that is another discussion