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Originally Posted by mfblume
When we see a verse in a so-called lost or excluded book that contains statements that are in the bible, this does not validate the book. Someone can easily take a statement quoted in the bible from someone whose book does not exist today, and repeat that quotation and surround it with gobbledegook, and claim the whole book was found by you and is written by the original writer whom the bible quoted from.
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That's an excellent point Mike, one made frequently in this discussion. Yet we don't find any evidence of such a book or sources. I've often wondered if there couldn't be some sort of OT variety of the NT's "Q" that might account for these citations. But such a source should have left a mark in numerous works the way "Q" appears to have done.