The Book of Enoch?

Question

This book is quoted in Jude 14, and 15, it was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and yet isn't part of the Bible? Tell me what is wrong with the book, Jude quotes it!

Answer 1

The Catholics, who compiled and decided what is Scripture and what is not, do not believe in fallen angels. The Book of Enoch originally was apart of the Cannon of Scripture, but because of the denial of the existance of Fallen Angels, the Catholics labled it a non-inspired writting. They almost threw ou the book of Jude, but because it soundd so much like the books of Peter, they left it in.

The fact that there is a direct quote from the book tells you that God deemed the book inspired. Other non-inspired books are mentioned in the Bible, but none are directly quoted. This tells us that the Book of Enoch is indeed Scripture.

Answer 2

There is nothing wrong with the Book of Enoch -- someone way back when decided not to include it in the canon of Scripture, although it is abundantly clear that many Jews and Christians considered it to be sacred scripture.
The Books of Enoch (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Enoch) have been discovered since the 1840s or so and because they were not in the Bible and come from unknown authors, they are classified as Pseudepigrapha, which is a general category of religious writing written in an ancient prophet's name, but most likely written later by someone else.
The books of Enoch are very interesting and give much insight into the beliefs of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity. They are readily available in books or on the internet, so I would highly recommend checking them out. It is too bad that so many writings that the early Christians used as scripture were never included in our Bible.

Answer 3

Enoch is highly flawed and while it is worth reading,it is not God given.The Book of Jude was nearly tossed because it used Enoch as a reference.
Read it,see what you think.As for me,I have browsed some of the psuedopigraphia and it does not pass my test.Most of it is lousy.
Jesus taught in the Temple and he had discussions about God all of the time.He ignored a lot of writings and considered them to be fakes.Enoch was available in His time but it was not included in the OT.Nor did Christ ever quote from it,mention it or anything.
There are things in Enoch that may be true,but that is overwhelmed by the false.

9 And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones
To execute judgement upon all,
And to destroy all the ungodly:
And to convict all flesh
Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed,
And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

That is the part included in Jude and here is a link to the book.Upon a cursory look,it appears specious--it just jumps out.Chapters are single sentences,that is ridiculous.

http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/enoch.html

Answer 4

There was nothing wrong with The Book Of Enoch.
But parts of Enoch speak of Hellenistic conceptions that were not God inspired nor accurate, so instead of omitting parts of the book of Enoch, the religious leaders decided to exclude it.
As you will see from reading this, some of the Dead Sea Scrolls disappeared and were not available to King James of England and Scotland when he commissioned the Old & New Testament books to be translated into English by the host of Greek, Hebrew, & Aramaic theological scholars he brought in to do the translations.

A series of pseudepigraphic works, mainly of Jewish origin, appeared during the period between 210 BC and 200 AD. They have many features in common. The most striking is the resemblance they all bear to the Book of Daniel. Following this model, most of them use "vision" as a literary device by which to introduce their conceptions of the remote future. A side product of this same movement was the composition, mainly in Alexandria, of the Sibylline books. The literary device of "vision" was one used in the Aeneid by Virgil, the classical contemporary of a large number of these works.

One peculiarity in regard to the majority of these documents is the fact that while popular among the Christian writers of the first Christian centuries, they disappeared with the advent of the Middle Ages, and remained unknown until the first half of the 19th century was well on in its course.

Answer 5

I myself have never read the book of enoch. But, I would suspect that when the council of nicea put the bible together and debated the divinty of jesus they felt that something in this book did not fit in with their views on their religion. It is interesting that these "lost books" that were written at roughly the same time as the books that were put into the bible are viewed in a different light. No one has any reason to think that these books were not also written by holy men of their day but they have a different opinion of god and jesus than the bible we have now. I guess it may have taken some power away from the priest and preachers and they could not allow that to happen.

Answer 6

The book of Enoch was a popular book in its day even though it's not part of the OT. If I remember correctly the book of Enoch talks about Adam's first wife Lilith, angels have sex with human women who gave birth to giants and a relatively unknown Arch Angel named Metatron (which to me sounds like a name for a Transformer, LOL).

Answer 7

The book of Enoch did not appear untii 1st centuary b.c. Justbecause Jude quoted it does not mean he considers it inspired.
The book of enoch talks about the Nephilim that are mentioned in Ge. 6:6 and how the angels lost their first estate and started to procreat with females on the earth which caused the flood, their offspring became gianst and had such an appetite they ate everything. the angels taught women how to ptu make-up on, they taught men how to wra, how to watch the phases of the moon, astrology, roots, ect. I am only half way thru the book, I am laso reading the lost books of the bible, Harod who cut off the head of Josh the babtist, well according to the book, his daughter also got her head cut off in an accident, there is a book of Mary and a book of joseph, and some ofther stories. I am only half way thru that book as well.

Answer 8

Why does there have to be something wrong with it?
There were stacks of books written that were never included in the Bible.
It doesn't make them inaccurate.
The Bible has a theme and the Author of that book made choices.

Answer 9

I am also surprised that it isn't part of the Bible. It describes Heaven and Hell, mentions the Savior, and has a lot of other cool stuff in it. I am at a loss as to how it got left out. I'm just glad it didn't stay lost forever.

Answer 10

Censorship. That book says fallen angels mated with human women because they found them desirable. That's way Muslims women cover their faces. That's why God flooded the Earth in The Great Flood (Noah). But the Roman Catholic Church don't want you to know TRUTHS anyway.

Ever wonder whats stored and guarded at gun point, under the Vatican?!!!!!!!