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NOW to finish this and get on to something else.... (NOW READ 1-3 above again) But let me be honest, I wasn't talking about the apocrypha but the DEAD SEA SCROLLS. I only briefly mentioned the Apocrypha. The book of Enoch in the scrolls. The Scrolls provide written records of a period for which other documents of the time are very scarce. The next oldest copy of the Old Testament doesn't surface until the 10th century AD, a thousand years later. The Dead Sea Scrolls help to provide a historical and social framework in which early Christianity developed. Anyway...this is what I was talking about. What happens when you die. I had questioned everything and still do, before coming to truth that makes me feel right about it, everything. Anyway I was searching for this truth, mainly about purgatory, I read scripture, Catholic writings....and then I read Enoch XXII, it doesn't say purgatory, but it sure explains it like the CHURCH does. That is what this topic was about. ONE issue. What happens after we die or a dog or what ever. Some how we have misunderstood each other I suppose. For this I am sorry. But the dead sea scrolls are way too new for us to know whether or not they are inspired by G-d or not. And I will not wait for someone to decide for me. As you have said the canon is closed....ok...well they didn't know we would find new works that are 1000 years older than the original either...with an insert from Noah, that is identical to the same writing in Genesis. Bottom line I will work my salvation out, seeking, testing everything, I will just not take anyones word for it, not the CHURCH yours or mine, I will test it. Because how can I be so sure if I don't plus scripture tells me to do just that, how can I know for sure the church (all of them) could not have made more mistakes than they are admitting to? Truthfully, I know as many others can see as time goes on and as scripture get translated to "easier" reading we lose more and more, scriptures have been left out, altered, added....etc. No two bibles read the same today unless edited by the same people. Thus the warning in Revelation to anyone who changes the words....etc...G-d never warns us about things that will not come to pass....he wouldn't waste his time...he could have very well said...watch out there will come a time when it becomes harder to find the truth because of the great apostasy and falling away, men will change these words, so seek the truth for yourself. And that is all I want to do...and don't worry. I will not SOLEY use anything one thing, but my Bible...