[bdeaner]

Show, don’t tell. If you have no evidence to refute the article, one must take your claims as empty words.

[count-your-change]

We need only look to the books like 2 Maccabees. In the beginning of chapter two Jeremiah is said to have been “warned by God” and so took the tabernacle and ark into the mountain where he found a cave and hid both items there.

Problem for this tale is the Temple had replaced the tabernacle hundreds years earlier and the ark was there.

Jeremiah was under the Mosiac Law and had no authority to move the ark anywhere, a task that only the Levites had performed.

Bel and Dragon: The Illustrated Bible Dictionary (vol. 1, pg 760, calls it a “pious legendary embroidery”.

Maybe Baruch will do better as in chapter one verses one and two Baruch is said to write from Babylon but Jeremiah 42:6,7 says Baruch and Jeremiah went to Egypt and therefore there is no evidence Baruch was ever in Babylon.

Neither Jesus nor any Bible writer quote from the Apocrypha.

I could go on to the false teachings of the Apocrypha too but the obvious errors I pointed out should be enough to show that the Apocrypha is not and never was part of the Inspired Canon.