Why does the Bible have books missing?

Question

Like for example the book of enoch...

Answer 1

Because not all books are considered authentic, such as books written by Gnostics some 400 years after Christ. So the church left those books out of the Cannon. It wasn't done as part of some conspiracy as many Neopagans, Mormons, and others would have you believe. For instance, there is one "lost book" about a lion that doesn't eat St. Paul after it "accepts Christianity" and is obviously copied from the Pagan fable of Andrew and The Lion. The Church fathers weren't stupid.

The Church had decided by the 2nd Century what books would be in the Cannon...long before Constantine. An official list of books was made to combat Marcion's heresy. Marcion was a heretic and anti-Semite who rejected the entire Old Testamnet and most of the New Testament.
http://www.ntcanon.org/Marcion.shtml

Answer 2

I believe that the Book of Enoch was not cannoized because its authorship was in question.


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"The Canon is defined as "a collection of books that are divinely inspired." The point was not that there were no other inspired writings, but that all the writings in the canon were guaranteed to be divinely inspired....

...The Hebrew canon was finally fixed by the Jews at the council of Yavneh, 90 AD. Earlier other books were considered part of the Hebrew canon, but now it takes its final form.
The council rejected the Septuagint, all the new testament writings, and any other writings that would lend support to Christians. Justin Martyr in his 'Dialogue with Trypho' chapters 71-72 stated that they even tried to remove verses form Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezra to try to stop the spread of Christianity. The prophecy in Ezra is still lost. At the end of this council, only what the Protestants will call the 39 books of the Old Testament would be hailed as scripture. Many of the other writings were burned. However, the Essennes preserved some of these in what is now known as 'the Dead Sea Scrolls.'
Later the Oral Torah and Yavnehan commentary would be written down in the form of the Mishna. ...

...After the Reformation of 1517 some Protestant groups began to notice that there seemed to be no Hebrew versions of some of the Old Testament Books that were in the Greek and Latin. These are called Apocrypha. Thus in 1534 began a movement to remove these from the Old Testament to the center of the bible. They were first completely removed from the Geneva Bible in 1599, then starting in 1629 other Bibles began appearing with only the 66 books. The British and American Bible Societies decided in 1827 to omit the Apocrypha from most copies of the KJV and the Bibles they printed in other languages. Today they print over 80% of the Bibles sent out to other countries..."

Answer 3

The Book of Enoch is included in the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible. The problem is that there are many mutually exclusive canons, all of which were selected and finalized by fallible human beings.

Answer 4

Some churches do include the Book of Enoch.
In any case,the Bible does not have any books missing.The so-called 'lost books' were never considered inspired writing by any members of the early church.
Most of these 'lost books' were written a few centuries after Jesus died,by Gnostic groups.
The Council of Nicea merely made the canon official.They did not 'toss out books they disagreed with',or try and cover up anything.As I said before,there was nothing to cover up.The canon had been decided years before,and the Gnostic books were never a part of it.

Answer 5

study Deut 29:29. i've got self belief we've what we've of the Bible on the grounds this is exactly what God meant us to have. We the two don't have the information to own extra advantageous than we already have, or use something extra with the information we do have. God motives all issues, and that i'm useful there's a reason we don't have those books. Be nicely.

Answer 6

Originally the Bible did not exist - there were only collections of scripture/gospels etc. At the council of Nicea they decided what to keep and what to leave out- some stuff they said was good but not the main part of the Bible (Apocrypha) and some they just ditched. The reasons varied from theological, political and even stylistic reasons.....

Answer 7

Because over time some books were lost, burned or destroyed in raids, war and actually a collection of Bishops (AD) decided what should go and what should stay.

There are books like Enoch that only a few people have read. It happens for a reason.

Answer 8

The four gospels in the bible were written by people who were alive at the time of jesus and paul letters were written shortly after. The other recently discovered or excluded were wriiten generations after. They didn't have printing presses then and most of what wasn't written until later was passed on orally and that's not very reliable.

Answer 9

Because Enoch does not line up with other books of the canon. Is the latest issue of HUSTLER inspired of God? NO! so its not in the canon.

Answer 10

The Bible does not have any books missing. The other books were never part of the Bible to begin with. www.equip.org