It's not Biblicalor at least I don't think it's in the Bible we use (whether Protestant or Anglican or Catholic). I don't remember the apocrypha well enough to say whether it's in any of the Orthodox Bibles or whatnot, but to be honest I doubt it. I think it's all a later development.
There's many things that aren't Biblical. You can even argue that the Trinity isn't Biblical -- there's a lot of Christians, generally orthodox, who don't believe that weird piece of doublethink and will happily argue, from a position of much more strength than me, that it's extra-Biblical and not even in the batshit-insane letters of Paul.
(There's many things that aren't Biblical. You can even argue that the Trinity isn't Biblical -- there's a lot of Christians, generally orthodox, who don't believe that weird piece of doublethink and will happily argue, from a position of much more strength than me, that it's extra-Biblical and not even in the batshit-insane letters of Paul.
boris the spider,
Thu 5 Nov 2009, 10:50,
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