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Because they are closeted jews.

>>21058405
why would they fear it when it's quoted in jude?

>>21058405
why would they fear it when it's quoted in jude?

>>21058405
It could be that the occultism that developed from the oral traditions of Enoch offends the political history of their churches.

>>21058405
>christians
it's not just christians, rabbis rejected it from jewish canon around the same time christians did and were even more stringent about it, and together they destroyed every single copy that existed in Europe until it was rediscovered in Ethiopia in like eighteenth century

>>21058405
It's quoted at least three times in the Bible. 2nd temple Judaism, which was familiar to all NT authors were well acquainted with Enoch. 1st Enoch, Book of the Watchers, etc. is basically a delineation of Genesis 6 and pre-flood history. It's funny how the gods/sons of god/watchers had children (Nephilim) and were all awful, but feared by humans is a theme through all ancient cultures, yet we dismiss it as fairy tales that just happened to be nearly identical across the globe.

>>21059609
Origen and Tertullian defended the canonicity of Enoch, and the Dead Sea Scrolls discoveries vindicates them. Why haven't there been efforts to canonize Enoch in light of these facts?

>>21058405
Enoch went to britain and wales where he is known as Idris.
Look up Idrtis's seat

I didn't know Christians feared it? Everything starts to make sense with Enoch

>>21058405
why would they fear it when it's quoted in jude?

>>21059464
>>21059509
>>21059797
idk anon but they did and for a while they wanted to exclude Jude from canon because of it

>>21059630
Jews and Catholics are closed-minded bigots
Christians don't have any problem with Enoch

>>21058405
You are wrong. Most Christians, including myself, that know of it and read it like it because it is the most blatant prophecy about Jesus from the ancient times

>>21060205
yet it's not canon

>>21058405
They do? This is the first time I'm hearing about it.

>>21060689
It is to the Ethiopian church, so what does that mean for papacy?

>>21062662
The book of Enoch is a mess of editing amalgamating five different sources. It isn't a problem by itself but some of those parts are quite...heterodox. Parts of Enoch might have become canon had it been properly separated, but antiquity saw it as an all or nothing decision for the book as it existed then.

>>21058405
they dont 'fear' it, they just think its not canon, ie a fanfic

>>21058405
Because it's judean fiction, not scripture.

>>21060205
>the most blantant prophecy about Enoch being the messiah is about Jesus

>>21058405
Based Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church does not fear it at all. The Catholic Church should include it in the canon.