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Some denominations include that book. And even in the more restrictive bibles, there are a few references to the books of Enoch to let us know that it was considered perhaps just as important as the rest of the scriptures.
Charity · 61-69
@froggtongue from my knowledge only the Bible that is used in Ethiopia contains the Book of Enoch.
@Charity i had the sense that there were several more groups that did. I have heard like you that the Ethiopians accepted those three.
Charity · 61-69
@froggtongue I did a study a while back, and it was said the Ethiopian Bible was the only one that contained the Books of Enoch.

From my understanding the English Bible never included the Books of Enochs but they did have 14 books, which they later removed called the Apocrypha.

ArishMell · 70-79, M
There were many fragments with the more intact Dead Sea Scrolls, but both the Torah and Bible use only their own selections of the Ancient Hebrews' books, and in different orders.

Presumably the selections were to suit whoever was in theological and political power at the time; with their own reasons for using or rejecting each work.

There might have been others long since lost totally. Whoever are the "they" saying it, the lack of religious literature from that 4 centuries BCE may be by a combination of reasons. The scribes may have not needed to write new ones anyway as their beliefs had become entrenched. They may have written some now long-lost accidentally. It's even plausible some writings were rejected, perhaps even destroyed, for dogmatic reasons, with no record of this happening.
robb65 · 56-60, M
Probably because the Christian "OT" follows cannon of the Jewish Tanach which was already considered closed by the time Enoch was written. I suppose the church could have included it with the books of the Apocrypha, but then the Protestants rejected those books by the late 1800's anyway so you'd be back to a bible that didn't include Enoch.
Charity · 61-69
@robb65
to me what you're saying it's irrelevant as to whether the Book of Enoch was tinkered with or not. You didn't say irrelevant to the translators. But as I said I didn't finish reading.
robb65 · 56-60, M
@Charity That wasn't what I said either, and I can tell you didn't read.
Charity · 61-69
@robb65 I repeated you of words as they appeared on my thread.

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Charity · 61-69
@ArishMell Jesus use the same people who enacted the execution of him to be the initiators of the spread of his gospel. He still doing it and will do it up until his return, I mean the pope is considered the leader of highest most prominent Church. The Romans heard of The miracles after all they occupied Jerusalem, may have seen some theirselves, and they change from the gods they believed in. And through them the gospel began to spread and as Jesus said the gospel must be teached to All Nations as a witness than the end will come. Almost there if not there, those Nations that are considered uncontacted have been they just reject the outside world.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Charity It took the Romans quite a long time to convert to Christianity "officially", or even its predecessors, and only after considerable, barbaric suppression.
Charity · 61-69
@ArishMell I am aware of some of the Roman history and I am aware that it was Constantine who became a Christian and who by his law change the Sabbath to Sunday, is when the Roman empire fully accepted Christianity.
And this was in the 3rd and 4th centuries
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Constantine-I-Roman-emperor

But the church was still there working before hand.

 
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