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Ep 164 | Is the Bible the Inspired Word of God? | Dr. Mac Brunson

Strange Encounters with Rick Burgess

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The Origins of the Bible

There are extra biblical books like the gospel of Thomas or the shepherd of Hermes that are not in it. The Catholic church does make a distinction between proto canonical, which is first canonical's like Genesis and Leviticus to apocrypha such as Enoch Maccabees. "They're great history books, but they're not scripture," he says.

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