Does third baruch (greek apocalypse) represent an authentic scriptural writing and why?
I would say they are the same. It isn’t a reliability issue. Ancient documents, all ancient documents, have undergone substantial change over time. It is impossible to collect data on what Origen saw. We cannot ask him. He is dead. No other documentary evidence is present to resolve the issue. It is not meaningful to talk in terms of reliability in an ancient document. There are hundreds of thousands of optional verses for the New Testament. The likelihood that a Church Father read the same document that another Church Father commented on is nil. The odds you are seeing the same document that a Church Father saw is pretty low too. When the apostolic fathers quote scripture they often provide quotes different from what we read, implying that there are significant changes since then and they knew the apostles. As to it being authentic, that is a canonical issue and it is not a scholarly issue. Books are scripture because they are included in the canon to be read during the liturgy not be
