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There is a thread here where a couple of people are introducing "The Forgotten Books of Eden". That isn't the topic of the thread, so I am creating a new one as not to derail that thread. You may or may not care anything about this, but I hope you do. There are lots of arguments about extra-Biblical writings and I find that most who favor them either haven't read the Bible or do not know enough of the Bible to see where these books present heresies and contradict God, Himself. I just read the link provided in the other thread because while I have read several extra-Biblical books to investigate their content when others promote them, I had never read this one. I read the first two books: The First and Second Books of Adam and Eve. It took me two hours. That's two hours of my life that I cannot get back. Here is the link if you would like to read it yourself. http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/fbe/fbe006.htm And here are the outrageous lies contained in these two "sacred" books - as they are called. When banished out of the garden, Adam and Eve grieve themselves to death. God raises them from the dead. Adam and Eve purposefully drown themselves. God raises them back up. Adams kills himself in the Cave of Treasures -where they live. Eve sits beside him in grief. God raises him back up. Adam and Eve kill themselves again by throwing themselves down a mountain. They bodies are described as torn to pieces. God raises them back up and tells them not to do that anymore. They take their own blood that bled out into the sand and use it to sacrifice to God. God accepts their sacrifice of their own blood to him. He tells Adam that he [God], too, will give his life one day the way that Adam did as a sacrifice. The devil brings fire and torches Adam and Eve, but God spares them even through their scorched skin remains. Adam and Eve decide to pay penance to God by standing in water up to their necks for many days - Eve:35 and Adam:40. The devil comes to Eve in the water and tempts her out of it. Adam finds out and is sorely despondent. The devil kills Adam by throwing something at him and blood and water flow from Adam. God raises him from the dead again and tells Adam that blood and water will flow again someday. Apparently, Adam and Eve do not know what sex is or what children are and apparently God never told them to "be fruitful and multiply" as he did in the Bible. In this book, the devil comes to Adam to "tempt" him to marry Eve. He makes Adam swear an oath to him by shaking hands that Adam will do what the devil says. They shake on it. Adam, after hearing about marriage, is afraid to marry Eve because he thinks God will be mad. So, the devil appears to Adam and Eve in the form of several beautiful women who explain wives, husbands, and children to them. The devil believes that if Adam and Eve reproduce that God will kill them. They first have twins - a boy and a girl - Cain and Luluwa. Then two more twins - another boy and girl - Abel and Aklia. Cain was very jealous of Abel and tried to kill him many times. Eve wants to have her sons marry each others' twin sister. Cain is jealous of his sister and beats and curses Eve. Adam and Eve only had 5 children. They stopped having sex having sex after the birth of Seth. Adam moves out of the cave and away from Eve. The devil appears to Adam as a beautiful woman and tries to seduce him into marrying "her" and having children with "her". God stops that and tells Adam to move back in with Eve, but that he will "quell the animal lust" in Adam so he and Eve won't have sex again. There are fundamentally foundational reasons why non-canonical books are NON-canonical. Without exception - when you read them and compare them to the Bible. It isn't that difficult to see why. Without exception.