The Enigmatic Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch is one of the most enigmatic writings I’ve encountered. The Book of Enoch is not in the Bible, yet contains some passages that appear to be similar to some passages of the Bible. The Book of Enoch is so highly-regarded by Ethiopian Orthodox Church that they consider it canon. For these reasons and more I felt that the Book of Enoch should almost be considered like a lost book of the Bible. However, I was not ready to proclaim it a lost book of the Bible because I understood that God kept it out of the Bible for a reason.

I encountered an article called “The Book of Enoch Exposed” by David J. Stewart a while back. Stewart posits that the Book of Enoch is heresy and is a book is a satanic deception that is intended to “corrupt God’s word”. This article caught my attention because it was really the first time I encountered an article that forcefully attacked the Book of Enoch, and it is a good thing I found this article because my original feelings about the book were wrong.

Stewart cites Chapter 40 of Enoch which mentions an angel who supposedly is “set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life”:

(7) And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord (8) of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth. After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: ‘Who are these four presences which I have (9) seen and whose words I have heard and written down?’ And he said to me: ‘This first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.’” (Enoch 40:7-9)

Stewart rightly condemns Enoch 40:9 for its unbiblical teaching about the presence of an angel who deals with matters relating to eternal life:

“That statement in itself contradicts everything the Word of God teaches. We read in 1st Timothy 2:5 that Jesus Christ is the ONLY Mediator between God and men, not some angel named Phanuel… “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” Repentance is strictly between a man and Jesus Christ alone”.[1]

Stewart also rightly attacks Enoch 48:1-3 because the passage contradicts Revelation 1:8 where Christ said “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty”.

“(1) And in that place I saw the fountain of righteousness Which was inexhaustible: And around it were many fountains of wisdom: And all the thirsty drank of them, And were filled with wisdom, And their dwellings were with the righteous and holy and elect. (2) And at that hour that Son of Man was named In the presence of the Lord of Spirits, And his name before the Head of Days. (3) Yea, before the sun and the signs were created, Before the stars of the heaven were made, His name was named before the Lord of Spirits.” (Enoch 48:1-3)

This passage in Enoch implies that Christ’s role as deity is temporary when the Book of Revelation makes it clear that Christ’s role as deity is eternal.

Steweart also attacks other aspects of the Book of Enoch, including the book’s claim that giants/Nephilim were taller than Noah’s ark. I suggest people read the entire article to see many of the scriptural problems that the book has.

My Stance on Book of Enoch

I would not look to the Book of Enoch for a new source of revelation. The book has many eschatological prophecies, but they do not concern anything that the Bible does not already cover. The unbiblical passages of the Book of Enoch destroy the book’s credibility.

Some people have cited a passage like Jude 1:14 to say that a biblical figure thought highly of the Book of Enoch (I know because I mistakenly did):

“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,” (Jude 1:14)

Stewart argues and I now agree that Jude 1:14 is not an endorsement of the Book of Enoch. While Enoch did prophesy those words there is no proof that the prophecy originated from the Book of Enoch. The prophecy simply could have been something that passed from generation to generation.

Finally, I do not believe it is possible for a book to be suppressed from the Bible. To believe that a book has been suppressed from the Bible is to say that man or a spiritual entity is strong enough to prevent the Word of God from being incorporated into the Bible. I do not believe that is possible because God is stronger than man or the spiritual forces of evil. If God wants a certain book included in the Bible it will get included.

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  1. Stewart, David J. “Book of Enoch Exposed”. 17 Mar. 2009. Last Accessed 28 Oct. 2017. http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/book_of_enoch.htm.
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Hi! I’ve studied and written about Bible prophecy since I was a teenager. My goal is to make Bible prophecy easy for you to understand while avoiding the sensationalism seen elsewhere. I am the author of several end time books, including Prophecy Proof Insights on the End Times, a comprehensive book about the end times. I hold an M.B.A. and degrees in Managerial Economics and Political Science.

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  1. I am curious about this book. I noticed it referred to rain, which according to Genesis did not occur until after the flood. I find that problematic unless there is a translation issue. However your concern with Gabriel and salvation does not make sense to me, as Gabriel WAS significantly involved in the nativity story.

  2. LOL ….YOU ARE MIS GUIDED ON THIS BOOK AND NOTHING YOU SAID IS RELEVANT….GODS WORD CANT BE STOPPED?….THATS FUNNY BECAUSE IN DANIEL THATS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED..ONE OF THE ANGELS HAD A MESSAGE FOR DANIEL AND WAS STOPPED…HE COULDN’T GET THROUGH…AND IF IT WASNT FOR MICHEAL THE MESSAGE WOULD HAVE STOPPED THERE….GOOD TRY …YOU NEED TO DO MORE RESEARCH…

    • If you’re going to criticize me, please at least turn off the caps. You inadvertently supported my point. There was an effort to stop that angel from reaching Daniel, but Michael was there to help the message reach Daniel. The effort to prevent God’s Word from reaching Daniel failed.

      • Eggs Actly! Not to make light of the subject in the least but more to emphasize my word of agreement. You have to love people who almost see the truth… they use their perception of the truth forcefully to the point of condemnation and ridicule. Then confident that they have made their adversarial target to appear foolish they more often than not never return to be enlightened. I did not use the term “You have to love people who” in a crass or intentionally demeaning manor. I both used and meant it as precisely that. WE as Christians MUST love them and pray that one day they will have eyes to see and ears to hear what the Spirit is saying.
        Now, not only can the word of God not be stopped… the word of God can NEVER return void. OF course I am merely parroting what you have already covered but it seemed proper to agree with you with the same vehemence (less the CAPS LOCK) that our friend disagreed.
        You and I of course don’t agree 100% on either of the two topics of yours that I have read today but it would start to worry me if we did. lol. You made one statement that, while I have faith was not intended as written, I felt to be one of the most dangerous things I have seen in some time. “Nevertheless, if you ever encounter a demon or an alien/fallen angel, you can scare them away by using Christ’s name”… By faith I believe that this is NOT your complete and intended advice on the matter, so I’m not gonna bother with quoting scripture to the “contrary” per se.
        One other issue, though issue is not exactly the correct terminology, is with Enoch. Not to be confused with the book of Enoch, which you covered quite well. The MAN Enoch.. The PROPHET Enoch.. Possibly the witness Enoch, who walked with God and was no more. It pains me to see how easily we shred apart something “thought” to have been written by someone who, as far as I can hazard a guess, was SO in tuned with Father God for 300 years, that not only did he NEVER die, but he along with Elijah are thought by many to be the Two Witnesses in Rev 11. It just seems to me that while it is obvious that the Book of Enoch did and does not belong in the Word of God that we just as obviously lack the authority to cast any doubt upon the man himself.. IMHO I am of the belief that the Book of Enoch was NOT penned by Enoch at all, but was written by someone in his circle of influence. This would give us the reason for several of the things which can be found in the book to “sound” inspired, while also giving us confidence that those things which seem to almost be exact opposite to Scripture could have and did happen. Be it intentional mis-leadings from Lucifer or mere inability of someone who was not under the hand and inspiration of The Spirit.. Thoughts???
        Not believing this book to be a valid part of the written Word of God doesn’t show it any disrespect at all. Simply put.. God is not the author of confusion. The moment any book, text, script, scroll, or anything else says the exact opposite of what the WHOLE of scripture teaches… that makes whatever it is void in regard to being the Inspired Word of God. Does it make it NOT something you can reference and by the Spirit discern fact from fiction? Nope, not at all. The reason that many, if not all, of the writings which are not included in the Bible (Christian Bible) isn’t because we are haters hating.. they simply are not inspired of God.. They are for the most part History Books. Only a very few win the Atrocity to Scripture award, or as I like to call them the “Kewl story Brah, but get on God’s level” books.

        Sorry for the wall of text. I thought to cover all the bases while here so that for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear there could be no confusion.
        B.

        • I can’t say if the Book of Enoch was written by someone in Enoch’s circle of influence. I think whatever the Lord wanted us to know from Enoch the Prophet was recorded by the divinely-inspired writers of the Bible. How and why did the errors in the Book of Enoch arise? On one end, it could be from the shortcomings of those who wrote the book. On the other end, it could stem from a nefarious plot by the Devil. Is it one, or the other, or both? Only the Lord truly knows…

    • I agree with lee. It’s for the last generation. And buddy there where definatly giants. Look into it. How big idk. But I feel like your just taking a couple things and trying to discredit this book, just like non believers do the Bible

  3. Yes God is stronger than men that’s why the book of henok and all other books are included in our bible
    You should study more before you say some thing that you don’t know about. our fathers and there fathers before themhave studied the bible for more than century’s so who make you the expert to tell us that we are wrong

    ps don’t you ever disrespect our bible

  4. I appreciate all of the insight on the book of Enoch. After a point, I felt my head spinning after listening to so many differences of opinions. I understand the verse in the bible better now the NIV 1 Cor1: 19-21,
    “As the scriptures say, ‘I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas.’ So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made them all foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe.”
    When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947, God used a Shepherd boy to make the discovery. I’m sure he would never have been notably worthy to be included in this fine discussion. This one shepherd boy was used by God to allow scholars from all over the world to come to Qumran to find out what this shepherd boy had discovered and this could only be of God. All the brilliant people who came were of different persuasions of faith and they needed to protect what they had come to practice for so many years.
    Let’s see what was found, you got it, a copy of the writings of Enoch”. To think, our so called ,”church fathers” thought they included everything that thought the biblical canon should contain after removing quite a few books. The Book of Enoch is very much Christian in nature.
    The Dead Sea scrolls dated back over 2,000 years ago. The oldest known scriptual writings known to man. Let us rightly divvied the Word, and in the process, let us not be so educated that we miss God’s simple truths. I say, listen to the least important in the worlds eyes to figure out what God is doing. By the way, I have a bachelors degree in liberal arts, and maybe this would allow me to have a say.

    • In reference to the Dead Sea Scrolls I would like to share a God incident. When I went to the Dead Sea area and listened to our tour guide, I asked if all the books of the OT were in the Dead Sea Scrolls? He said all but the Book of Ester, because it did not have God’s name in it.
      Later back in the US I spoke to a small group of people joining our church. I spoke about the trip to the Dead Sea caves. One person asked if all the OT books were in the Dead Sea Scrolls? I suddenly flipped open a large church bible right in front of them. Amazing! It landed right on Ester. After church I told my wife about this. Then I opened another bible up and it landed on Ester again. Both of these times when I opened up a bible, Ester was on both the left and right pages. With both bibles Ester started on the right side page before. God confirmed that HE wanted the Book of Ester in the Bible. I really wasn’t doubting that I didn’t think. I have shared this testimony with many.

  5. I really enjoy ready ur blogs and I have read a majority of the dead sea scrolls. But something u said at the end of this blog stood out to me which was ur last paragraph. Ur right in the fact that nothing is more powerful than god but he put us on this earth with freewill. He doesnt stop evil things from happening cause he wants us to look to him for the strength within ourselves to battle for the good. So to say he wouldn’t allow Scripture/ things to not be allowed in the bible doesnt make sense to me. The fact that dead sea scrolls were hidden away and found when they were indicates to me how important they are and should be analized with an open mind and heart.

  6. The only way we can understand GODS truth is to Truely surrender ourselves to JESUSCHRIST in order to understand and see what he reveals to those who are truely HIS and HIS children as it is written in Luke 10:17-24.

  7. When I skim read the book of Enoch I came to the conclusion that there may be some divine revelation in it but that man had also messed around with it and so muddied the waters. As Billy Graham said something similar to, “You would need divine revelation to know what was divine and what was not.”

  8. Thank you for clarifying your position. It seems I misinterpreted some of the things you said earlier.  I understand your position clearly now. My own preference is to rely on the King James Bible, but people are free to follow what they believe is appropriate.

  9. i agree with both of you.  please dont think i am dismissing anything.  i have a great respect for both of you and wish you well.

    my only point is that just because i agree with Fenis Dake for example, that doesnt mean dake is 100% correct.  he is just a man like anyone else.

    i certainly dont have all the answers.  who am i?  im insignificant.

    i have great respect for creation science and was pretty much raised on it so i know a bit more than you think and agree with much of it although we still cannot prove or validate it.  I just dont believe for a second anyone (especially secular science) has all the answers.  Evolution is kind of a joke really.  when Francis Crick discovered DNA it completely destroyed evolution.  Messenger RNA literally contains an information set with coded instructions that allow amino acids to align forming proteins (a 1 in 20^200 chance of forming one average chain on accident).  According to information theory information cannot be classified as either matter or energy and has never been known to evolve so where did it come from?  evolution is a dead theory that sciences refuses to let go of because its become a religion.

    i totally agree with the idea that the bible is sound and there is only one way to interpret it… the problem is… do you really know for sure you are exactly right?  the bible is pretty complicated, i mean after all it came from god.  i am definitely not going to pretend i understand it completely.  Jewish scribes dedicate years of their lives trying to understand the law and other Jewish texts.

    here is a great example.  the Orthodox Church (who i have a great respect and admiration for) include several books in their canon that are not included in the King James.  does that mean those books are heresies or not intended by god?  of course not. 

    i mean who is to say their canon is wrong and ours is correct or vice versa? 

    besides here is a teaching of the orthodox church that most protestants do not agree with.  when the bible speaks of the word of god why do you think it is speaking of a book?  why would you assume god is referring to a book that hasn’t even been put together yet?  the orthodox do not believe the word of God is a book they believe gods word is Jesus.

    read john 1-14

    the scriptures are still holy and very revered.  but in the orthodox faith the church, which is the body of Christ, is the center of their faith and not the bible.  so in essence christ is the center of their faith.  the orthodox church is the first church.  it still worships in exactly
    the way the apostles instructed and passes its teachings on through
    apostolic succession.  mother mary started the very first chuch in antioch!!  pretty
    cool 🙂

    the bible is still revered as holy scriptures (please dont think i am diminishing the bible at all).

    Jesus IS the word of God.  think about it.  the ancient church didnt even have a bible for 300 years.  what did they rely on?  this idea that all we need is the bible or that the bible is the center of christianity came from martin luther when he invented Sola Scriptura to counteract the horrible attrocites of the roman catholic church.  A set of doctrines that are not scriptural at all as the book of James points out.

    James 2:24  (Sola Fide means “by faith alone” in latin and is one of the five solas taught by Luther)

    Martin Luther called the book of James an “epistle of straw” and almost excluded it from his translation…  We in the west desperately needed Luther and he did a great thing saving millions from the tyranny of the catholic church but that doesnt mean he was 100% correct.  his doctrine of solas is still incorrect and greatly pervades protestant theology to this day.

    we can agree to disagree… i am not trying to convince anyone of anything or pressure anyone in any way.  i just want people to be open minded and realize none of us really have all the answers or know for 100%

  10. I respect what creation scientists do because they try to defend the Bible’s account. Secular scientists may not agree with a lot of what creation scientists say, but secular scientists don’t know everything. This is just my opinion on this matter. I’m not trying to start a debate on the topic.

  11. well please remember that “creation science” is at best guessing.  they really have no evidence whatsoever.  matter of fact secular science would scoff at everything we are discussing.

    the verse you are quoting does not say there was no rain until after the flood.  it just says there was no rain at that particular time.  this is extremely important to note because its nuances like this that allow us to rectify biblical history and science.  the first few verses of genesis are a prime example.  the gap theory… as well as the idea of re-creation vs creation.  i believe genesis 1 tells of a re-creation of the earth not the original creation.  if you look at the hebrew words there is evidence of this.  Prophecies in jeremia also back this up.

    there is no way creation scientists can validate anything they are saying.  everything they postulate is based on “their” interpretation of gods word which can be interpreted a million different ways.  just look at how J. Stewart chooses to interpret the book of enoch.  he just doesnt like it so he is going to nit pick every part of it.  He even goes so far as to dismiss parts of Enoch that clearly match the Pentateuch.

    i could nit pick the bible all day but i dont because i believe in it.  on the same hand i dont nit pick enoch because i read and i believe in it.  at the end of the day all of this is a matter of faith anyway.  its in this respect it is irresponsible for any of us to assert anything with absolute certainty.

    this is only my opinion but i don’t believe you can say that whatever is in the canon that’s what god intended.  to suggest such a thing means that god ignores our free will and orchestrates the out come of every event regardless of what we choose. 

    Matthew 16:19

    God honors our free will flawed though we may be.

  12. If you are familiar with creation science, it posits that the hydrological cycle with which we are familiar did not begin until after the Flood when the canopy was smashed and all the water that was above the firmament was released into the atmosphere, as well as the water that was released from the underground reservoirs.  Just as said in the verse I already quoted, there was no rain on the earth until after the Flood.  The world may have brought forth weeds and thorns, but the basic makeup of the way it was did not change.  It was still a tropical climate and while seasons may have been charted by the change of the constellations and the growing of annual crops, the fact is, it did not have the change of climates that we see throughout the seasons, and it did not have rain.  There are three really good creation science ministries that can show you what the world was like.  I have found that the most scientific and detailed one, on a very college type technical level is the Creation Evidence Museum at creationevidence.org.  The most user-friendly one, so to speak, in my opinion is Answers in Genesis at answersingenesis.org.  They are an especially great resource to teach children.  The third one is the Institute for Creation Research at icr.org.  Any one of them is well worth visiting.  As for the book of Enoch, it doesn’t have to be totally dismissed out of hand, but any information in it is subject to intense scrutiny and comparison to what Scripture says before being accepted as viable truth.  If it really was canon, I am confident that God would have seen to it that it was included in our Bible.  He did say He is capable of preserving His Word.

  13. thats also an excellent point friend!

    the jews didnt include this book in their canon either so the fact it isnt in the bible isnt really shocking at all.

    Also remember that Noah contributed to some of this literature.  if this knowledge was really several thousand years old it would have been rewritten many, many times.  Noah himself probably compiled as much of his grandfathers work as he could and tried to put it all together.

    i could be wrong but i thought i even read some enochian literature where noah actually introduces himself in the beginning.  i will try to dig up whatever i can to confirm.

    noah lived to the ripe old age of 500 and something.  he lived quite a while after the flood.  even the epic of gilgamesh talks about the flood and a man he met that had long life!!  really cool if he really met noah!

    im not saying enoch is true scripture… im just saying keep an open mind.  father enoch is a very important figure in genesis… if even small parts of this are some of his thoughts i find it very valuable to me as a christian.

  14. thats an excellent point connie and very clever.

    however… this is where we need to be careful.  remember when god cursed adam and eve. Genesis 3:17-18

    “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed [is] the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;”

    God literally curses the ground here so man would have to work to get food from it.  seasons are a huge part of farming.  God fundamentally changed adam and Eve as well as the Serpant.  We dont know what changes god made to the Earth at that moment.  We really cant say for sure what the earth was like and we cant say for sure there was no rain or seasons.  we do know the firmamnet still existed and that god emptied it to make the flood but thats about the extent of it.

    also remember translation is key here.  the translator could be adding words he is familiar with.  I will research the 1833 version when i get some time and let you know what i find.

    People are using their brains! Very Impressed!! 🙂

  15. well put friend.  i dont think it should be held to the same standard as the law and i dont think it should be part of the canon either.

    its funny… Enoch wrote 365 books supposedly, of which we have only a few.  I wish we had more.  Enochs book may not have been relevant in the past but now that we are finding more and more evidence of the ancients I think it helps us.  I know Christians that believe the earth is only 6k years old.  thats pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

  16. You make some good points Connie.

    I’m glad you also mentioned Creation Science. I was looking for a good excuse to share the following from Answers In Genesis, a popular Creation Science organization, concerning the Book of Enoch: “So, is the book we have today really from pre-Flood Enoch? This is extremely unlikely, since the book was not included in the canon of Scripture. Consider that it mentions Mt. Sinai (which didn’t existed until after the Flood), and Enoch lived long before the Flood. Rarely, if ever, do prophetic works reveal the future name of a place.”

  17. I find it interesting that in Chapter 2 of Enoch, you find this statement. “Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.”  Now while there may very well have been seasons, as dictated by the change in the constellation cycle, the whole earth was a tropical paradise before the flood when Enoch lived, so there were no summer and winter changes as we know them.  Referencing summer and winter seems a little unusual given that there was probably very little difference in the seasons for them to note.  I also find it a little fishy that Enoch would know what rain is, given that it never rained  upon the earth until the Flood of Noah, and by then Enoch had been removed from here. Genesis 2:5-6 “And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb
    of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain
    upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.”  The hydrological cycle as we know it did not begin until after the Flood, according to Scripture and Creation Scientists, so therefore there were no clouds either.  That would seem to make this book just a little suspicious, even though Jude quoted some of it.  Some of it may have come down from Enoch, but I don’t think all of it did, given this verse.

  18. It’s still hard for me to view the Book of Enoch as being at the same level as scripture when it’s not included in the Bible. Perhaps there are some items in the Book of Enoch that are true, but one has to be careful to not take everything in the Book of Enoch as scripture.  

  19. sorry it took so long to get back… have been busy.  yes i completely agree with you as long as you are not citing sola scriptura which is not scriptural at all.  remember the church existed for 300 years before the bible was even put together and martin luther even tried to exclude the book of James. (he was a great man with great contributions but still technically wrong in my opinion)

    here is my take on verse 40:9.  i dont think it contradicts at all.  the reason is simple.  this was written before the NT.  God made a new covenant with mankind with the coming of jesus.  the rules were completely different back then.  people made burnt offerings to god to atone for sin.  there very well could have been an angel that god placed over these rituals but that angel is no longer needed now that we have Jesus.  thats probably why Phanuel is no longer mentioned in the bible.  people that made these offerings didnt go to hell either they went to paradise or a waiting place that enoch mentions.  Phanuel could have simply been in charge of this place or maybe his function was to guide repentant souls to this place before the coming of jesus.  a place jesus may have gone to right after he died on the cross to witness.  its wrong to say this contradicts Timothy when this was clearly written way before it when the rules were totally different.

    The book of Enoch as i read was VERY reverent to god.  I felt a very deep respect for the lord as i read it.  I really don’t see why the author would go to such extraordinary lengths to venerate the most high just to turn around and teach minor heresies that predate Jesus. I felt god in Enoch…. as soon as i stated to read Thomas i got a bad feeling and put it down.

    We are finding some really weird stuff all over the world… pyramids under water… ancient hindu cities that date back 30k years.  monolithic structures that look like they were built with power tools. Even Vedic texts that make detailed descriptions of Weapons of mass destruction and flying machines.  some of this stuff could go back 100k years and is simply unexplainable.  Enoch is really the only thing that helps explain this stuff.  When you read enoch it all fits together.  even the greeks mention the Titans (who were supposedly 400+ ft tall).  The bible plainly states that when the Israelite’s came into Caanan they were like grasshoppers to the inhabitants there.

  20. ya i commented before and after conducting quite a bit more research i am thoroughly convinced J. Stewart is completely wrong and just totally biased because he doesn’t like the descriptions of the world before the flood and doesn’t understand the book of Enoch at all.

    don’t let another persons bias and ignorance deter you from a great read.

    translation is key here.  you have to get a proper translation.  the 1883 version by Richard Lawrence reads much different.

    here is a good example.  i just goggled OT contradictions and came upon a website that claims 101 contradictions in the old testament.  if you cross-reference the king James these contradictions are completely inaccurate but in other versions they seem correct.

  21. Thanks. Honestly, I didn’t intend my article on the Book of Enoch to be associated with the Nephillim topic. I have some very interesting information that may be related to the Nephillim which I haven’t shared yet. I’m not sure when I will share it or if I will because it’s fairly speculative.