Do you read Apocrypha
books?
I have read the traditional Apocrypha books as well as others not listed between the Testaments. I do not, however, read them with the same regard that I have for the Bible. Apocryphal books were available in Jesus’ day and yet He never once mentioned, alluded to, or quoted from any of them, all the while quoting from many Old Testament books.
Furthermore, many of the stories in the Apocrypha lend themselves to magic more than God. For example, here is a brief rundown of events in the book of Tobit, describing a story in which a Jewish father, blinded by the dung of a bird falling into his eyes, sent his son to collect a debt. On his journey, he got a heart, liver, and gall of a fish. He ran into a widow who had been married seven times, but had never consummated any of the marriages because an evil spirit had killed each husband on their respective wedding nights. Tobias, the son, married the widow, and by burning two of the fish parts, drove off the evil spirit called Asmodeus. He then used the gall from that fish to cure his father's blindness.
I will not hang my theological hat on the likes of that.
I have read the traditional Apocrypha books as well as others not listed between the Testaments. I do not, however, read them with the same regard that I have for the Bible. Apocryphal books were available in Jesus’ day and yet He never once mentioned, alluded to, or quoted from any of them, all the while quoting from many Old Testament books.
Furthermore, many of the stories in the Apocrypha lend themselves to magic more than God. For example, here is a brief rundown of events in the book of Tobit, describing a story in which a Jewish father, blinded by the dung of a bird falling into his eyes, sent his son to collect a debt. On his journey, he got a heart, liver, and gall of a fish. He ran into a widow who had been married seven times, but had never consummated any of the marriages because an evil spirit had killed each husband on their respective wedding nights. Tobias, the son, married the widow, and by burning two of the fish parts, drove off the evil spirit called Asmodeus. He then used the gall from that fish to cure his father's blindness.
I will not hang my theological hat on the likes of that.
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