Are you familiar with the Septuagint? Did you know that it is the official Old Testament of the Eastern Orthodox and is also the main version of the Old Testament used by the Roman Catholics? Did God inspire the translators of it to improve the Hebrew text? Is the Septuagint superior to the Masoretic Hebrew text of the Old Testament which is used by Jews, Protestants, and the Continuing Church of God? Is the Septuagint older? What about the Dead Sea Scrolls? Did Melito of Sardis include the Apocrypha when he listed the books of the Old Testament? Were there different versions of the Septuagint? Do different churches use different books from the Septuagint, like 1 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh, 3 Maccabees, and the Odes? What did Jerome and Athanasius write about Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach/Eccleiasticus, Esther, Judith, Tobit, "Story of Susanna and the Hymn of the Three Children, and the fables of Bel and the Dragon," and other so-called deuterocanonical books? What do some of these books teach? Do the Septuagint accounts in Genesis contradict scripture? Could Jesus and His disciples have used the version that Origen of Alexandria put together? Did they mainly quote the Septuagint? Do New Testament writers mainly directly quote the Septuagint Old Testament? Did they ever quote from the Apocrypha in the New Testament? What did the Council of Trent in 1546 do? When did the Armenian Church first use the Apocrypha? What did Saxony priest Hugh of St. Victor teach about the Apocrypha in the 11th century? Did the true Church know the Old Testament canon from the beginning or did it take 15 (Roman Catholic Church) or 16 (Eastern Orthodox Church) centuries after Jesus' resurrection to be finalized? Dr. Thiel addresses each of these and more.
A free online book of related interest is available titled "Who Gave the World the Bible? The Canon: Why do we have the books we now do in the Bible? Is the Bible complete?" URL: https://www.cogwriter.com/BibleCanon.pdf
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