[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I wanted to know what was the scoop on these “extra” books in the Bible.***

I've read them and consider them to be just tall pious tales.
Tobit-a man blind because a bird pooped in his eyes restored by fish bile, and a woman whose husbands are all killed by a demon. A fictional morality tale.

Judith- historically inaccurate, another fictional morality tale.

Additions to Esther- feisty Jewish Esther or wimpy Greek Ester?
Additions to Daniel- more Sherlock Holmes than Daniel.

Maccabees-The Spartans are a lost tribe of Abraham. otherwise it is interesting history.

II Maccabees-tell of the location of the missing ark of the Covenant. So why do so many people want to look in Templar castles and Ethiopia?

The only ones really relevant are the Wisdom books which are mostly rehashes of Proverbs.

These are pious fictions like the Shepherd of Hermas, and about as useful.

Everyone should read the Apocrypha at least once to personally see why they are irrelevant.

[bronx2]

To feign ignorance about these works is to be disingenuous. These threads are replete with vitriolic commentary concerning these books wantonly disregarded by the reformation .

These discussions never enlighten or lead to any discernment on the part of either side. Any apparent innocent questions are really traps for the unwary and are do not merit any insightful commentary. It is time to be honest and get on with some topic which can illuminate as discussions of these works has been debated to death.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I've read them and consider them to be just tall pious tales.

That's how most Catholics regard the Bible anyway.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Tobit-a man blind because a bird pooped in his eyes restored by fish bile, and a woman whose husbands are all killed by a demon. A fictional morality tale.

That is the attitude of atheists and naturalists to all claims of supernatural phenomena.

You reject the Apocrypha not because its miracles are "silly," but because it isn't in the Protestant bible.