Discussion on the Apocrypha and Church History

It says it again, cut off from the end of Daniel.

What is the Apocrypha?

A certain group of books of the Bible

that used to be included but ain't in your Bible today.

What was in them?

Why did the church take it out?

Well, to understand this, you gotta do a little digging into church history.

The Apocrypha used to come standard in all Bibles.

The Council of Hippo in 393 and the Council of Cartridge in 397

reaffirmed and included them in all standard literature.

The first decisive removal didn't come till 1546 at the Council of Trent

when the Catholic Church removed the entire Apocrypha

and listed the books of the Bible you have today as canonical scripture

and excluded everything else.

Martin Luther and the Protestants saw it a little bit different.

In his 1534 edition of the Bible,

he listed the Apocrypha as not equal to Holy Scripture

but good and useful to read.

In my mind, it's just a book.

Why wouldn't you leave it in there for people to read it

and make their own decisions?

So I did a little digging.

Here's a hint.

It has a lot to do with the Holy Land of Israel-Palestine.

Let's start at the beginning, 1 Thessalonians.

As you can see, it talks about King David,

Israel, the Levites.

This one is excluded because they said it was

a redundant variety of canonical scripture.

Wisdom of Solomon, written about 100 BC,

excluded because it was written in Greek,

not Hebrew.

Ecclesiasticus, written about 180 BC,

excluded because it was not in the Jewish Bible.

The Book of Baruch was written by the prophet Jeremiah

Scribe and it was excluded because it was not in the Jewish Bible.

The history of Susanna, it even says right here,

set apart from the beginning of Daniel

because it is not in the Hebrew.

This Bible was written in 1812, 214 years ago.

They kinda say the quiet part out loud.

I don't think anybody noticed.

Maybe we notice it now.

I take real issue with the first Book of Maccabees

because this is a historical account of the Jewish revolt

that happened about 160 BC.

And they excluded it because it wasn't in the Jewish Bible

and because they said it was written about 100 BC

Which is crazy because the earliest book of the New Testament was Mark

and that was written about 50 years after Jesus died

Which is about the same time period of Maccabees

The book of Anassis excluded because it was not in the Hebrew Canon

lastly the destruction of Bel and the dragon

It says it again cut off from the end of Daniel

Why because it was not in the Hebrew Canon

again and not to get off topic,

but they tell us dragons aren't real, right?

But dinosaurs are what is a dinosaur a large reptile?

What is a dragon a large reptile?

You ain't seen the skin on none of these.

How do you know what dragon and a dinosaur ain't the same thing?

Valid point.

Why did they take it out?

I'm not sure but I've identified a common thread

It seems that these guys right here are

always behind the scenes pulling the strings

It's the Christian Church doing it but

only because it was not in the Jewish Bible

These guys right here own the media the banks

and all the adult film sites

I'm not sure why these guys didn't want the apocrypha in your Bible

I'm also not sure why they took Palestine out of the Holy Land

But I'm fixing to put these things online

so we can all read them and decipher them together

because they said shit in the game