by Doug Mason 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
Documents produced during the Second Temple Period included writings such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and Sirach. Apostle Paul lived during the very late stage of that Period.
The first century Jews, including those who accepted Jesus as the Promised Messiah, regarded these writings very highly.
This list provides the locations in the New Testament documents that either cite or allude to these Second Temple writings.
http://www.jwstudies.com/NT_Citation_and_Allusions_to_Apocrypha.pdf
Thanks Doug, an interesting list.
The JW Org stance, illogical as usual, is where such works are quoted from, those words are "inspired" but not the whole work that is the source !
As you have pointed out in an earlier excellent work of yours, the position of JW's, and other Churches, as to what is Canonical, and would be considered the "word of god" by believers, is extremely silly.
These works, and maybe others we do not have, certainly influenced the thinking and theology of the Bible writers, so, whence their "inspiration" ? Surely at least in some measure from "Apocryphal" works.
And it was humans and not any God that decided what was Inspired Scripture and what was Apocrypha .
The JW Org stance, illogical as usual, is where such works are quoted from, those words are "inspired" but not the whole work that is the source !
So very true Phizzy
Hebrew embellished history and Hebrew Mythology make up the bible! Inspired by who?
just saying!
2 Tim.3:16 All scripture is inspired and beneficial for teaching ...etc,etc.?
Their are heaps of other scriptures that are ignored by Christians even ones that are named in the accepted bible texts known as the Bible today.
Just to name a couple that are mentioned in the Bible ,however are not a part of the bible canon.?
The book of Enoch ,
The book of Jubilees.
The Testament of Noah
The book of Jasher
Their are dozens more scriptures in circulation that never made it into the Bible ,not because God didn`t want them to be their ,but simply because men didn`t want them to be in the accepted canon.
Also when 2 Tim 3:16 was uttered a significant portion of the New testament was not even written.?
Thanks for this interesting contribution.
More and more evidence that "the writings" are a product of the human being formed in an arbitrary way and where the divine intervention is only a statement without evidence or any support.
Good job!!
