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To: boatbums
Jesus never made a "direct" quote of them, no. Nor did he ever refer to any of them as from God even IF he made allusion to them. No "thus sayeth the Lord". No "it is written". Hmmm...

Netheir is Ezra or Nehemiah or several others, for that matter. They are not mentioned at all in the entire NT. Have you redacted them from your Bible yet?

3,596 posted on 11/23/2011 5:09:11 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr
Netheir is Ezra or Nehemiah or several others, for that matter. They are not mentioned at all in the entire NT. Have you redacted them from your Bible yet?

Why would I? They were long accepted books of the Jewish canon and are not in dispute. Whereas the Apocryphal books ARE and for good reason. I wonder, if they didn't hint at prayers for the dead and Purgatory, would the Catholic Church have made such a big stink over them? Up until Trent, they were consider "helpful" or a good read and maybe had some historical info missing of the time period of the last few centuries pre-Christian Era. But it seems like it took the Reformation to get the "powers that be" to get around to demanding them be considered equal to Divinely-inspired Scripture. Somehow, I don't think the motive was holy.

3,603 posted on 11/23/2011 5:33:30 PM PST by boatbums ( Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us. Titus 3:5)
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