Can true Christians commit heinous sins?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program

where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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Well, first up today, let's go to a voicemail.

This is from Ian.

Just want to say I've been listening to your rights program almost daily, honestly, about

saved a few months ago.

It's really helped me in my faith.

I really appreciate that.

I guess my question is about

the apocryphal books of the Bible, you know, the ones that are embraced by Catholics and Eastern

Orthodox. I'm a Protestant. I guess my question is, how do we interpret those books of the Bible?

Are they heretical? Or do they, I know they were not, you know, introduced in Council of Nicaea. I just don't know how we should be those books. Thank you so much. I appreciate you guys. Hey, Ian. Thank you for your encouragement. And I'm glad to hear that you discovered the broadcast and that it's been a blessing to you. Please keep us in your prayers as we seek to encourage others in their faith. And this is an excellent question.

So what do we do with these apocryphal books that are in, you know, the Catholic Bible or the

Eastern Orthodox Bible, Roman Catholic Bible? How do we view them? I don't think we need to view them

as heretical. In fact, in some places of the New Testament, like in Jude and 2nd Peter, I believe, some of them are actually quoted.

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