Who has read the Book Of Enoch?

Question

What did you think?

Answer 1

I have and not much

Answer 2

i have yes !
i read it about 25 yeas ago. and since then i have that there are 2 versions of it. one is very anti sodomite and very much Condeming of evil while the other is more polite and censored.
when i read the parts about 200 feet tall giants on the earth i rejected as being apostate. therefore i got rid of it. however there is the legacy of a 200 ft giant in the English history and an outline of a giant which depicts archeological depiction of the existence.
there is an author who has studied giants too and there are skeletal existence of 18 ft tall giants all over the world.
The book of enoch can ONLY be a copy of a copy of a copy of historical and traditional word for word traditions of something that happened long ago. Seeing that Books didnt exist and most things were carved in stone or word of mouth. So a book form can only go back so far in history.
there are faith promoting statements in the book like a particular vision of the throne and glory of God. and even the explanation of how things operate in the next existence of life. There is so much missing from Western christianity in the truths that exist outside of traditional gospel literature that almost everything MUST have some basis for truth in literature. but not all things are from God

Answer 3

I think that of all the extra-Biblical books the book of Enoch seems to be most in line with the teachings found in the Bible. That includes the apocryphal books found in the middle of some versions of the Bible. The book of Enoch is quoted in the book of Jude.

Jude 1:14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him."

That having been said, portions of that book are reminiscent of some of the portions of the apochrypha where the stories seem to have been made up by men and not written by the Holy Spirit through men.

Answer 4

I read one of them a long time ago (there's actually 3 different books tilted the "Book of Enoch" in the Pseudepigrapha), even used it for a paper back in college. The idea of all the levels of heaven is interesting, kind of like Dante who probably got the idea for the Divine Comedy from it.

Answer 5

Sorry, I've never read it.