Have you read the book of Enoch, what do you think?

Question

Why was it left out of the bible i wonder.

Answer 1

I love it. It was excluded round about the time the Catholic church was forming because they thought at the time it was heresy to say that angels could be disobedient to God. It's obvious that the early Christians believed it as scripture. Even Jesus made reference to it and it certainly helps in understanding the book of Revelation. As Enoch said, it was written for a people far off and yet to come. I believe every Christian should read it.

Answer 2

Enoch was the son of Cain (son of Adam), yet the book of Enoch was written around the second and first centuries B.C.E. It is obviously not written by him. It is an 'apocryphal book and is not inspired so it has been omitted from the Bible.

It is a collection of extravagant and unhistorical Jewish myths, evidently the product of exegetical elaborations on the brief Genesis reference to Enoch. This alone is sufficient for lovers of God’s inspired Word to dismiss it.

In the Bible, only the book of Jude contains Enoch’s prophetic words: “Look! Jehovah came with his holy myriads, to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their ungodly deeds that they did in an ungodly way, and concerning all the shocking things that ungodly sinners spoke against him.” (Jude 14, 15) Many scholars contend that Enoch’s prophecy against his ungodly contemporaries is quoted directly from the Book of Enoch. Is it possible that Jude used an unreliable apocryphal book as his source?

How Jude knew of Enoch’s prophecy is not revealed in the Scriptures. He may simply have quoted a common source, a reliable tradition handed down from remote antiquity. Paul evidently did something similar when he named Jannes and Jambres as the otherwise anonymous magicians of Pharaoh’s court who opposed Moses. If the writer of the Book of Enoch had access to an ancient source of this kind, why should we deny it to Jude?—Exodus 7:11, 22; 2 Timothy 3:8.

How Jude received the information about Enoch’s message to the ungodly is a minor matter. Its reliability is attested to by the fact that Jude wrote under divine inspiration. (2 Timothy 3:16) God’s holy spirit guarded him from stating anything that was not true.

The disciple Stephen also provided information found nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures. It concerned Moses’ Egyptian education, his being 40 years old when he fled Egypt, the 40-year duration of his stay in Midian, and the angelic role in transmitting the Mosaic Law.—Acts 7:22, 23, 30, 38.

Answer 3

If you read the full version, you will see a great many inaccuracies concerning the annual calendar (exactly 12 moons in a solar year, for example). Most likely the RCC left this book out because it was known to be fallacious. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, however, includes it in their canon. Look here: http://www.jimpettis.com/bibles/chart.htm under "Deutero-canonical Additions" and read the footnotes. Note that Hebrew texts of this work have been found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 4

The Book of Enoch was first written in the late second century AD, nearly 200 years after Christ. It is one of several books written by adherents of Gnosticism, one of the earliest heretical movements. All Gnostics all had in common the following features:
A) Refusal of the Trinity
B) Refusal of Christ as true God and true man
C) Other beings of superior power, many of whom were serious rivals for God's pre-eminent position
D) Denial of salvation through faith
E) Denial of good works as evidence of salvation
F) Requirement of converts to study esoteric knowledge before salvation could be granted
G) Salvation attained through one's own efforts at obtaining secret knowledge

Fairly obvious why the Council decided it had no place in inspired Scripture.

C'mon, the stuff isn't even good fiction! It's gobbledegook and poorly written gobbledegook at that!

Answer 5

I personally loved it. I read somewhere it was actually in the cannon of scripture before, and at the time Constantine's religious crew were making all the rules it was removed again. Who really knows. I did however get allot out of it, but could never officially teach out of it. I do discuss it at home with my family. It has allot to offer, and is quoted out of several times in the scriptures.

Answer 6

Interesting, but I see no reason to include it in the Books of the Bible.

Read it for yourself:

http://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_1.HTM

Answer 7

The Short story by Alfred Hitchcock?

Answer 8

Yes it is interestiant, but jewish and cristians don´t take it in count, because it mention the word "oracle", and this word were own of the ancient greeks, there is conciderated apocryphal too, because it not mention the giants that were supposed to live in that "prediluvian word".

Answer 9

Oh i thought you meant Enoch Powell

Answer 10

BORRRRRING! He had a vision, and it was like.
12 cows walked up to 10 cows. And then 3 cows walked away. 24 more cows walked up, but 15 cows fell dead. Then 100 more cows got in the picture...
MIND BLOWING! But I guess it meant something in his day. Since they didn't have any education at all, but how to count cows!