Why isn't the Book of Enoch in the Bible?
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First, we don't know that Jude is actually quoting the Book of Enoch.  It is just that what little of the Book of Enoch that survived is the only other reference we have to this apparently real event.  \n\nSecond, apparantly neither the church nor the Jews felt that it was an inspired writting.  \n\nThird, the Book of Enoch seemed to be an "Old Testament" book that was written during "New Testament" times.  It is even possible that the Book of Enoch was written shortly AFTER Jude.  Christians certainly recognized that there were no prophets still writting books to the Jews.  Isreal had not had a prophet in over 400 years.  If God had sent a new prophet surely he would not be writting about Enoch, but about what was going on with what they believed to be a great apostacy (Christianity).  \n\nIt is also very likely, since very little of the book remains for us to examine, that it did not claim to be anything but a story.  Many such "books" were written, and never meant to be taken as Scripture.  We have Christian devotional and fictional books being written all the time today, too.\n\nThe event to which Jude refers to seems to have actually taken place.  We know this because we have an inspired author telling us about it.  That does not mean that, even if he quoted this book, that the book is Scripture.  Paul quoted greek philosophers, too.
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No. There has been too much lost in the numerous translations. And I would question your statement about the book being in existence for 'thousands' of years. The new testament and the gospels were not instantly assembled upon the death of Jesus of Nazareth. The old testament was passed on by word of mouth long before the books were written.  Compound these necessary flaws with the council of cardinals who decided which books were going to be part of the bible and which books were not, and the church's practice of censoring anything that did not agree with doctrine, and you have a less than perfect product.
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Because a LOT of the world population DOES NOT believe or care about a book written by men centuries afterJesus christ's life.\nGet real, the bible is JUST a book, no more, no less!
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Okay, back in the day when the first set of pagans under Constantine converted to Christianity, a group of clergies and etc...got together and collected all the books every written by those who lived in that era of Jesus.  They sat in a council and decided which books they wanted to include in the bible and which ones they would throw out.  The people who wrote the current books of the bible read many of the ones who were not included, thus leaving us with a half written story of the bible.
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Of course, we believed that the original Bible that given by God to Moses had already vanished in this world but if it can be found, we cannot follow what lies inside it because the born of Quran executed other Holy Books including Bible.\nWhy we should believed to a book that have been spoiled by reckless people, they manipulate everything, the changed every contents ? We could not consider Bible as the Holy Book anymore... Too many version of Bible and we don't know which one is the right ones !.
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Genesis was not written by Moses.  The First Book of the Bible is an acount of the beginings of the earth and the origins of mankind.\nMostly likely it is based upon earlier mythology, other cultural traditions prior to what has become known as the Judeo- Christian tradition.\nThe Pentauch - the five books of Moses are merely a reference point, not an acknowledge of Moses's specific role in documenting these mythological events and creation stories.
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Mankind had grown to new heights of evil preceding the flood. Certainly women knew they were copulating with something other than humans - and the debauchery was great on many levels.\n\nThe Book of Enoch was obviously quoted in accepted canonized books and should have been included.  The reason (or part of the reason) why it was rejected is because Enoch described planets as orbs (round) and having orbital paths..., something that threatened the Flat Earth stigma.\n\nAt any rate the Bible mentions the Nephelim not because they were a good thing.., but an added evil so yeah, your observation is at least partly true.  Only seven people in the entire earth had not been corrupted.. Actually it was just Noah, but there had to have been an assumption that his family had not been corrupted by that evil.\n\nOur present day world is seeing evil that rivals that of Noah's day, with men experimenting and trying to create life from scratch. Already some scientists are working on completely artificial human DNA. They have also manipulated genes so that female mice can have babies without a male partner - something they hope to develop into human females so the need for males are zero.., a violation of the order God set out on this world.\n\nTodays generation calls evil good and good evil.  Being homosexual and immoral is considered normal and thus deemed as good - but having morals is considered to be stifling intelligence and trying to control others, hence deemed as bad.\n\nThe list goes on and on..., but evil has reached new heights and the world doesn't see it. I've heard many saying there is no evil in  his world .., all things are good.\n\nJesus will be coming back soon. The sooner - the better!  Unless God had not cut the days short, mankind will end in a global state of genocide (nuclear and bio-weapons, diseases from abuse of our own bodies, violence and injustice and more)
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Because there are many people who don't follow the doctrines of your mythological book.\n\nJust like YOU don't follow the laws of Islam, or the Hebrew faith, or worship Zeus and Hercules.\n\nWhy are YOU so ignorant of other people's beliefs?\n\nThe bible is a book. It's a good book. But it is JUST a book.
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The Bible focuses on spiritual matters, not the physical world.  That's why it doesn't mention so many things that would be of interest (for example, the trade routes known at the various tmes the Books were written; population figures; manner of dress, etc.).
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The bible was not intended to be a science book.  Although it gives scientific information long before science was even known. It says that all animals reproduced according to their kind.  A horse could not give birth to a dog, nor a dog give birth to a cat. Also, the order in which the earth was created was the only way it could possibly be done to support mankind.  It had to have soil,  light, foliage, fruits and vegetables, etc before God made man. Man was His last creation and the earth was ready for him.
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The story of Enoch is quite true, he did walk with God and was taken to heaven by the angels.  He never tasted death.
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I know what you mean, if you were to actually believe the Bible, no one would want to be in the presents of an Angel. In the Bible it was very rare for an Angel to be on Earth for any good purpose, most of the time they are there to deal out punishment.
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None.  They didn't exist when religious texts were written.
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i think it's misunderstood.\n\ni believe that most, if not all the books in the apocrypha were really intended to be included in the "official" bible, but were omitted by people in positions of oversight solely because these books, when taken in context with the rest of the bible, take the emphasis away from *organized* christianity, and put it on the individual to "realize god". those stories (like the gospel of nicodemus, the gospel of mary, little genesis, etc) actually serve to direct people in a sane way towards realizations of felicity and temperance... but because they do so without compelling people to tithe and suffer and bow to a church, they're discredited as "lies". \n\nit's a pity, because the world might not have turned out to see such a shortage of common sense if they'd been recognized from the start.
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Yes it is,  Many protestant bibles have left it out since it does not contain alot of writings to the level of some of the other books ( but I would guess if many protestants had thier choice today they would leeave out some of the OT stories now adays.\n\nBut it is in my bible
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The *Bible* doesn't say.\n\nLawrence\nhttp://www.truebiblesermons.com
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Coz Noah forgot to let Dino on board....(kidding)\n\nno, coz Bible is a book about relationship between human and God, not Dino with God