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The Apocrypha of the Church
The Apocrypha are writings considered of contemporaneous merit, but not necessarily Jesusy enough to go into the Bible. Or at least not how they wanted to frame what they wanted the church to become. So there was like a sit down that took place and people decided, okay, these are the books we're going to put in. If it was, that fits with tradition. Judaism is extremely political. A lot of the traditions of early Christianity come directly out of Jewish tradition and practice. Exactly. We should also mention probably that Jesus was a Jew. He was most likely not a white dude. And even if he was Caucasian living in the Middle East, he would have quite a tan