Deuterocanonicals should be in the bible

well this is an honor to debate you and although I was expecting a Protestant to debate me , you being a Jew is just as good as you too know the Old testament well so thanks for accepting. " The use of magic in Tobit 6:5-7" My opponent states Tobit 6:5-7. Promotes the teaching of magic but this could be no farther from the truth. The angel Raphael was disguised as under the name Azarias. An angel of God would only do and teach that which God has commanded him to. Magic is the teachings of demons on how to perform certain supernatural and mystical things against the will og God. However Azarias (the angel Raphael) was an angel of God and thus his teachings were affirmed by God. This is why Tobit 6:5-7 is NOT promoting magic but rather giving us knowledge from God through his angel Raphael on how to perform a certain act affirmed by God which will chase demons away. My opponent makes the assertion that 2 Maccabees 12:43 is contradictory to Isaiah 55. This is not true! 2 Maccabees 12:43 displays Jewish traditions of the time. It must be notes that most credible christian, jewish and secular scholars affirm the historicity of 2 Maccabees . The book is not claiming the validity of these customs but rather is just recording what the Jews of the time practiced and believed . Thus your argument should not be directed at the book of 2 Maccabees but rather at your Jewish ancestors. Compare 2 Maccabees 12:43 with Leviticus 4:13-20 which also displays a ridiculous custom of the time that Leviticus 4:13-20 is talking about. Yet you are ready to accept Leviticus and its teachings as scripture but not 2 Maccabees... Why the double standard? 2maccabees 12:43 in no way contradicts Isaiah 55. Alleged historical errors of Judith 1:5 Judith 1:5 speaks of Nebuchodnosor , not the king of Babylon who took and destroyed Jerusalem, but another of the same name who reigned as King of Assyria from Niniveh. This Nebuchodnosor is also called by profane historians, Saosduchin. He succeeded Asarhaddon in the Kingdom of the Assyrians, and was contemporary with Mannasses, King of Juda. For more info on this here is where this issue is spoken of in depth ----ï¿½ (creationwiki.org/Book_of_Judith) My opponent says Baruch 6:2 contradicts Jeremiah 25:11 This is not true at all. Baruch 6:2 seven 'generations' not seven 'years'.. Scholars and many others understood "gnerations" to means seventy years as Jeremiah 25:11 says. Fr Leo Haydock , an authority in biblical matters, in his commentary of the book of Baruch said " a generation sometimes consisted of seven, ten, fifteen, thirty , thirty five or one hundred years". Is accepted by biblical authorities. That 'generation' in Baruch 6:2 stands for ten seven year periods and thus it makes up 70 years as Jeremiah 25:11 says. Now I want to put history on the table The oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible/ Old Testament. Are the Dead seas scrolls which are said to date back to 300BC. The scrolls belonged to a sect of Jews at Qumran. Amongst other writings of these Jews, the scrolls contained the septuagint which contained a number of Deuterocannonical scriptures namely ; Tobit , Letter of Jeremiah and Tobit. In the days of Christ, 1st century AD there was more than one canon circulating the Jews. There's was the canon of the Pharasees , the canon of the Suddacees, the canon of the Etheopian Jews and the canon of the diaspora/ Greek speaking Jews known as the septuagint ( the canon of the ctholic bible ). ALL canons were acceptesdd as true. In Ad 90 the Jews met at the Council of Jamnia to discuss a single cannon so that they could differentiate themselves from the christians. The christians were using the septuagint as their hebrew bible and used it to support their doctrines. The council of Jamnia was the council that resulted in the expulsion of the Deuterocanonicals and resulted in the 39 book old testament. However it is evident that before this council, the deuterocanonicals were viewed as scripture by the Jews, especially the diaspora jews who were the. A significantly large group of Jews if not the largest. It is a scholarly fact that the septuagint was the most widely used canon amongst the Jews in 1st century AD. The deuterocanonicals are thus scripture and were erroneously taken out by the Jews and later the protestants. References : - * sites.google.com/site/apostolicapologetics/sacred-scripture/deuterocanon-apocrypha * en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books * biblescripture.net/Canon.html * sites.google.com/site/apostolicapologetics/sacred-scripture/deuterocanon-apocrypha/refuting-carm-on-the-deuterocanon * sites.google.com/site/apostolicapologetics/sacred-scripture/deuterocanon-apocrypha * catholicfidelity.com/apologetics-topics/bible/defending-the-deuterocannonicals-by-james-akin/