- The Pharisees and other religious authorities did not include them in the Hebrew Old Testament canon.
- Neither the Jews, Jesus, nor any New Testament writer quoted it as the Word of God.
- Josephus, the great Jewish historian, and Philo, the Jewish philosopher, excluded it.
- The early church fathers excluded it.
- The Bible translator Jerome did not accept the books as inspired, although the Pope forced him to include them in the Latin Vulgate Bible.
- None of the books claims divine inspiration; in fact, some actually disclaim it.
- Some apocryphal books contain historical, geographical and doctrinal errors.
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