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Originally Posted by UntoHim
At the risk of sounding a bit flippant (UntoHim flippant...say it ain't so!) what renowned, reputable seminary or school of higher learning did you hear that "The job of the canonizers was to identify and remove Greek-influenced texts from the Bible"?
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You may not like it, but that is exactly what they did! There was lots of junk written during the Greek period, and most of that was discounted as spurious.
The Apocryphal books are "the best of the worst", and even those we do not take as canon.
But keep in mind that the writers of the NT did not have a "canon". Jude cited Apocrypha in his opening verses. So what should we do with Jude?
In the epistle of Barnabus, he used the Phoenix as proof of the resurrection, as if the Phoenix was not a myth. Thank God that book was left out of the canon.
There are numerous examples of this, so I feel VERY justified in identifying those passages.