By: Mike James

by Mike James

Whenever you get into a discussion about whether apocryphal or pseudepigraphal books should be in the Bible, some will mention books mentioned in the Bible. The question will be why these books in the Bible aren’t part of the canon if the Bible itself mentions them. Let me provide a few examples of what I’m talking about.

In Numbers 24:14, we read the following: “Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon.”