It conflicts with the canonical books.
It conflicts with the canonical books.
(3) Baruch conflicts with the canonical books. This Baruch says that “he composed his writing in Babylon after Jerusalem had been destroyed” (1:1). Canonical history, however, testifies that Baruch, the son of Neriah, the servant of Jeremiah, along with his master “had been deported into Egypt” (Jer. 43:6) by the stubborn Jews after the destruction of the city. This Baruch says that “after the city was abandoned, money was sent to the priests at Jerusalem that with it they might buy burnt offerings, incense, and myrrh and offer sacrifices at Jerusalem to the Lord for the sake of the captive Jews” (1:7). But sacred history nowhere says that after the temple had been burned that there was any external worship there. Rather, it contradicts this fabrication when it mentions that the feasts were discontinued and the temple completely destroyed. Lam. 2:6: “He has broken down His booth like that of a garden. He has demolished His tabernacle. The Lord has consigned feast and sabbath to forgetfulness in Zion,” etc. Verse 7: “The Lord has driven away His altar and has removed His sanctuary far from Himself.” Ezra 3:[2] relates that after seventy years of captivity the Jews returned home and “built the altar of the God of Israel to offer burnt offerings upon it.”