The Book of Enoch Explained

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel solid read/share Brother William, thanks for sharing good buddy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Cree_Nation

Fun Fact in Edmonton has a nearby Band/Tribe of that name.

the book of Enoch was a pseudepigrapha; that is it wasn’t written by Enoch. It was a collection of literary units brought together. It is also what we call apocryphal. That is there are some things in it that are accurate, and there are lots of things are not. It is not an inspired book. It was not an Old Testament book. The Jews never accepted it as inspired; they never had it in the canon. The Christians never accepted it as inspired. The Roman Catholic Church didn’t even include 1 Enoch or 2 Enoch in the Apocrypha, which is in the middle, you know, of Roman Catholic Bibles. It was never viewed as Scripture – that is the book of 1 Enoch.

By the way, Jude does not call it Scripture – graphē – nor does he introduce the quote with “It is written,” which is a pretty typical way to introduce Scripture.”

Jude is just referring to a popular source that everybody knew as generally important. They looked at these writings, that were collected in 1 Enoch, and they gave them some weight as to their history and their contribution and their commentary. And so, he simply quotes this as a known source. It’s not common, but it’s not rare either.

Acts 17 – I think this is interesting enough just to drag you through a few more minutes of it. Acts 17, verse 28, Paul says, speaking to the philosophers on Mars Hill, “In Him” – that is in God – “we live and move and exist, even as some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His offspring.’” He says, “On that your poets are right” - and there he quotes essentially a pagan philosopher by the name of Aratus who wrote this in his work called Phaenomena. He quotes a pagan philosopher. Added note from GTY. Thanks for the post.