[realpatriot71]

Ok, so the Jews didn't have a Canon in the same way that we have defined a Canon now. This still doesn't negate the fact that the Jews NEVER thought the Apocryphal books were holy, nor was there a prophet in the land during the time of the writting of these books.

You want to try and pull theology from these books? Fine, but it's your own mortal soul at stake. Please, I emplore you take time with sufficient prayer and let God show you what He's always been trying to tell the world in the Bible. Use your God-given intellect and search and look for yourself.

[Aquinasfan]

This still doesn't negate the fact that the Jews NEVER thought the Apocryphal books were holy

Where do you get that from? There is evidence in the Bible itself indicating that the Apostles used the Septuagint (See my previous post to you*). Whose canon of the Old Testament do you trust, the canon of the Apostles or the canon of a Jewish Council that rejected the canonicity of the New Testament?

*In Acts 7:14 St. Stephen says that Jacob came to Joseph with 75 people. The Masoretic Hebrew version of Gen. 46:27 says “70,” while the Septuagint’s says “75,” the number Stephen used. Following the Apostles’ example, Stephen clearly used the Septuagint.