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What Is the Apocrypha and Can We Trust These Books to be Scripture?

When Martin Luther translated the Bible, the great Reformer chose to include the Apocrypha but didn’t like it. He called these books apocryphal, that is, texts of dubious origin, and disqualified by their very nature from being part of the Holy Scriptures. This very fact serves as a proper introduction to those books called the Apocrypha. The Apocrypha is not the Word of God, and, thus, not to be read as such, and not to be trusted for faith and life. However it does provide some value to believers. ....

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