2006-07-27 19:59:24 · 9 answers · asked by DaOgs 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes ... and Azmurath is pretending totally fallacious scholarship ..as I have often seen him do ..
The Book was around all through the MiddleAges ... It's primary importance is it's influence ...It affected greatly the works of Aquinas, and both Dante and Milton ... Because most of the conceptions of heaven and hell (more specifically Satan and hell) derive from it ... look at the Bible and it it is fairly replete of descriptions of these (excepting vagaries) ..see Job and New Testament ..
The work likely dates to the Intertestamental period (between the Old and New Testament) ..and true copies were in both Ethiopia and in the Dead Sea Scrolls .. but they were not "missing" as azamurath suggests ... contrary- they were having wide influence on varied Catholic doctrines ..
They were not even considered for canonization ... because they were not "Torah" proper ...as were other tracts like 'The Songs of Solomon" ... That were chosen to not be canonized ...but one must distinguish between the Old Testament and New Testament canonization process ... of which the Book of Enoch truly belonged to neither of these bodies ..they are therefore more pseudigraphia ...
But that did not stop early Christian fathers from venerating the content ... The dualism of heaven vs hell ... and the inclination of Christians to claim people would be sent to a nasty place ...would likely be not at all well defined without the existence of this important Book ...
But a part of it that is ignored ..is that this book accepts reincarnation as fact ..and that the multiple heavens and hells in it are "temporal" places of reward and punishment between our lives here on earth ... Aquinas and other Christian scholars who widely sourced this text always chose to ignore that aspect of it ...
2006-07-27 20:21:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have read parts of it. Though it is not part of Canon, it has a lot to say about the background to Genesis 6. There is a book titled "Nephilim and the Pyramid of the Apocalypse" by Patrick Heron which goes into some detail. Interesting reading, but I find it heretical that he thinks God is like some kind of spiritual humanoid. A better book to read is "Alien Invasion" by Gary Bates.
2006-07-28 03:15:42 · answer #2 · answered by Seraph 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not likely, since it is one of those books the Catholic Chruch decided to take out of the Bible.
It wasnt until the 1700s when a explorer visited Ethiopia and took back 3 copies of the book that it was shown to exist, it ahs even been found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Here is an online version
http://reluctant-messenger.com/1enoch01-60.htm
2006-07-28 03:05:24 · answer #3 · answered by azmurath 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did read it, but found it to be unenlightening to me and really unnecessary to my walk with Christ....( I felt the same when I started reading the Book of Mormon and a few other books I tried.)
2006-07-28 03:07:15 · answer #4 · answered by gracefully_saved 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, But I heard it had something to do with the Nephilim or Fallen Angels that had Sex with the daughters of men, and made Giants,or something....
2006-07-28 03:10:34 · answer #5 · answered by Thomas J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I Have! Need help understing It, I can especially help you when it starts talking about all the different kinds of animals and how they are represented!
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2006-07-28 03:56:07 · answer #6 · answered by iceman4christ@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have><>
2006-07-28 03:05:56 · answer #7 · answered by CEM 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no...interesting...ive read every other book known to man except this....hmnnn
2006-07-28 03:11:54 · answer #8 · answered by Pvt. Andrew Malone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know, i can't read.
2006-07-29 04:51:41 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋