Why do you not consider the Apocrypha as part of the Scripture?

The Pharisees and other religious authorities did not include them in the Hebrew Old Testament canon.
Neither the Jews, Jesus, nor any New Testament writer quoted it as the Word of God.
Josephus, the great Jewish historian, and Philo, the Jewish philosopher, excluded it.
The early church fathers excluded it.
The Bible translator Jerome did not accept the books as inspired, although the Pope forced him to include them in the Latin Vulgate Bible.
None of the books claims divine inspiration; in fact, some actually disclaim it.
Some apocryphal books contain historical, geographical and doctrinal errors.

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