Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith.

Ask questions, seek answers,

and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for watered down Christian teaching.

And if you're ready to go deeper God is just as ready to

take you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian. Have you ever

opened up a Catholic Bible if you're a Protestant, a non-Catholic, and seen,

whoa, there's some extra books in here. What are these?

Or maybe as you've been reading and studying more about the canon through this series,

you have discovered that certain traditions, including the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church as well as many Anglican

churches have the apocrypha these additional books included in their

Bibles. If that was shocking or alarming to you, you're not alone.

Many believers are not familiar with where the apocryphal books come from,

in their history in English translations.

And so in this episode,

we're going to get into all the nitty gritty details about the apocrypha.

So without further ado, let's chat first

about what this term means,pha is a Greek term and it is a word that literally

means hidden or concealed.

So in the early church period,

this word was associated with secret knowledge,

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