The Protestant churches, on the other hand, following the Jewish assessment of the worth of the Apocrypha, rejected it and made the Protestant Bible the same as the original thirty-nine books of the Jewish Bible. “So what?” you might ask. “Isn’t it enough to know that God inspired the Bible. Why bother with historical process when we know what God wanted all along?” Historical process is God’s chosen method of communication. The Old Testament is God’s record of His use of historical process to reveal
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