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Being Orthodox I should like to take the affirmative in this debate but I would love an intelligent discussion with someone who disagrees as I want to understand the other perspective...
I think we should look at their origin and when and why the books were removed from the Protestant bible and what is contained in them. I want to focus on their removal in some churches and continued use in others. Biblical scholars with preconceived notions about these texts and the groups who still value them mean very little to me.
To be clear, I am referring specifically to the books that were in the bible used for the first 15-1800 years of Christianity and are still used by both Catholic and Orthodox Christians, not the ones that were clearly fraudulent and rejected by the church from the get go...
I think we should look at their origin and when and why the books were removed from the Protestant bible and what is contained in them. I want to focus on their removal in some churches and continued use in others. Biblical scholars with preconceived notions about these texts and the groups who still value them mean very little to me.
To be clear, I am referring specifically to the books that were in the bible used for the first 15-1800 years of Christianity and are still used by both Catholic and Orthodox Christians, not the ones that were clearly fraudulent and rejected by the church from the get go...
