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To: Rashputin; Elsie
The reason is that those books were NEVER, read NEVER considered "inspired" even by the Catholic church until Trent. That's why Jerome as well as many other early church fathers specifically said they were not to be used for doctrine. So, the Holy Spirit most certainly DID protect the Word of God from the inclusion of error since they were not part of the Old Testament NOR the New Testament. In fact, it's those who insist these books are God-breathed Scripture who are really the ones calling into question both the reliability of the word of God as well as the perfection and deity of the Holy Spirit.

God doesn't make the stupid mistakes that are found in the Apocryphal books (i.e., The book of Judith incorrectly says that Nebuchadnezzar was the king of the Assyrians when he was the king of the Babylonians; Baruch 6:2 says the Jews would serve in Babylon for seven generations where Jer. 25:11 says it was for 70 years.) He also doesn't contradict other Scripture by condoning using magic (Tobit 6:5-7, smoke from a fish's heart, when burned, drives away evil spirits), that the giving of alms saves us (Tobit 4:11, "For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness."; Tobit 12:9, "For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins.) or money as an offering for the sins of the dead (2 Maccabbees 12:43, "And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachmas of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection.)

But, like I have said to you before, you can treasure those extra books to your heart's content, but you cannot pass judgment on the souls of people who can tell the difference between the words of God and those of fallible men.

211 posted on 08/26/2014 8:08:49 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums
Oh, and where do any of the Apostles, Apostles Jesus Christ promised would be led to all Truth by the Holy Spirit, say there are any books included in the Septuagint that are not the inspired Word of God?

None of them ever did which means either Jesus Christ was just joshin' when He promised that the Holy Spirit would lead them to all Truth or that the Holy Spirit did not lead the Apostles to all Truth and therefor is imperfect and cannot be a part of the Holy Trinity.

Anyone who insists that the anti-Christ Pharisee Approved Luther Subset of Scripture is the complete Bible has to believe one of those two things, that Christ was just joshin' or that there is no Holy Trinity since the Holy Spirit is imperfect and cannot be part of the Holy Trinity.

215 posted on 08/26/2014 9:45:38 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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