[Snowybear]

I have a real issue with leaving the Book of Enoch out of the Old Testament.

-SB

[numberonepal]

Even FReeQs can’t wrap their heads around that it’s ALL lies and always has been. Sad.

[The Toddler]

I have a real issue with leaving the Book of Enoch out of the Old Testament.

The book of Enoch was written about 300 B.C. The parables section around 100 A.D. It is psuedepigraphal. (not written by who it is claimed to be written by) It also contradicts scripture. The fact that it wasn't written by Enoch is enough to disqualify it as scripture.

It was probably written by the Essenes. They did not practice the same form of Judaism that then Lord did when He was on earth. At any rate it was never considered scripture by any of the early church fathers.

[tang-soo]

I have a real issue with leaving the Book of Enoch out of the Old Testament.

I tend to agree. It is referenced in II Peter and Jude. I also think it is referenced when the NT speaks of Jesus entering Hades in I Peter 3

For Christ also suffered[b] once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in which[c] he went and proclaimed[d] to the spirits in prison, 20 because[e] they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

That must be a reference to the writings in Enoch.