How We Got the Apocrypha and its relationship to the Septuagint

Why Accept the Apocrypha as Inspired?

Apocrypha means hidden things.The word Apocrypha was then associated with the meaning untrue.These writings consist of 13 books 1 and 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, an addition of Esther, additions to Daniel, Wisdom of Solomon.Ecclesiasteicus (also known as the wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach) Baruch, the letter of Jeremiah, the prayer of Manasses and 1 and 2 Maccabees.Whether something is written hundreds of years later or hundreds of years before, the test has to be applied whether it agrees with

You might not know this, but when we found the Gnostic/apocryphal Gospels (Gospel of Peter, Thomas, Judas, Mary, etc.) it didn’t surprise us. In one way we *expected* to find them because early Christians were writing about how they contained incorrect and false stories about who Jesus was. When we dug them out of the sand all we discovered was that the early church was exactly right in the errors they described them containing. | Wes Huff

Did Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Really Write the Gospels?