Similar to the chapter-and-verse-numbered Qu'ran, the chapter-and-verse-numbered Apocrypha (comprised of such books as Maccabees, Sirach, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, Esdras, etc.) is a spurious group of religious-prose books NOT found in the CANONICAL Hebrew-lettered ben-Asher, Kittel-printed, Masoretic Old-Testament Text....which PSEUDO-bible books are thus NOT accepted as The Word of God by true Christians of the true Christian Church.

Apocrypha is post-Old-Testament religious-public-readings tripe typically imposed by oppressively-authoritarian, rumors-superstitious, consigned-to-perpetual-addictions-and-sins, anti-Puritan, despising/rejecting-the-Truth, non-born-anew, cultic catholics - devoid of fair-minded tender and genuine love.

Such wolves-in-sheeps-clothing heretics - substituting in liturgical traditions from shadowy sources - concordantly espouse petitioning/prayer to dead humans and angels, belief in the delayed-repentance myth of purgatory, presumed Divine sinlessness of Mary and her alleged ascension, supposed infallibility of the pope, and works-pseudorighteousness anti-Gospel supposition of eucharist being self-sacrificing atonement re-sacrificing Christ's wafers-and-wine corpse back to Him, usually during every Sunday-morning mass.

The apocryphal writings are, in essence, needless and senseless, mixed-up, do-and-don't-commands rehash and plagiaristic rewording against the genuinely-canonical Old-Testament books of Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes...along with a conglomerate plethoria of questionable and irrelevant rewritten history or legends.

The Apocrypha was definitely not written by any Hebrew author(s) and therefore is certainly not Divinely-inspired. Christ Himself and His New-Testament-author apostles NEVER quoted ANYTHING from the Apocrypha - contrary to what some clerical and congregant liars have claimed in arrogant and mean-spirited opposition in their devious deceitfulness of giving similar-sounding-semantic credit to Satan and his literature-stealing conspirators.

The Apocrypha does NOT have a Messianic thrust, is deprecatory against men and women, tends to separate God away from humanity and humanity away from God as distant hostile-toward-each-other entities of differing power, and is markedly legalistic, harsh, and unmistakenly islamic Koran-like.

The AUTHENTIC Church of Jesus Christ and His latter-day saints must not be a part of such FALSE antichrist-like anti-evangelical ecumenism in surreptitiously trying to compromise with all world religions.

Some of the precepts of the Apocrypha are absurd and ridiculous, some are even dangerous in what they infer, some idolize human ethical strivings, and some are outright blasphemous libel against the Lord.

The crucial gospel characteristics of correctly-defined sin and actual total forgiveness, assured salvation, a gracious and humble Savior, complete redemption and everlasting life and resurrection in and by the Redeemer, righteous-renewed living, justification and sanctification in and through dependence upon the kindness and self-sacrifice of God, eternal glory and praise and joy....are misconstrued or missing in the Apocrypha.