Should the Book of Enoch be in the Bible canon?

[tonychanyt]

Wiki:

The Book of Enoch ... is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah.

before 3000 BC

The older sections (mainly in the Book of the Watchers) of the text are estimated to date from about 300–200 BC

The Book of Enoch could not have been written by Noah's great-grandfather. This is a weighty reason for excluding it from the canon. The author of the Book of Enoch was not inspired by God.

Why was the book of Enoch quoted in Jude yet not included in the official canon?

John 1:1 seems to allude to Philo writing in De Profugis

the Logos of the living God is the bond of everything, holding all things together and binding all the parts, and prevents them from being dissolved and separated.

Should De Profugis be considered part of the canon?

There is another allusion in Titus 1:

12 One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”

Expositor's Greek Testament:

The whole line occurs, according to Jerome, in the περὶ χρησμῶν of Epimenides, a native of Cnossus in Crete. ... It is generally agreed that St. Paul was referring to Epimenides.

Should we put Epimenides' περὶ χρησμῶν into the Bible canon?

No. Allusions and citations are not sufficient conditions to be part of the Protestant canon.

Does the Book of Enoch have any validity?

I don't just dismiss anything. I put a weight on everything.

Wiki:

It is not part of the biblical canon used by Jews, apart from Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). While the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church consider the Book of Enoch canonical, other Christian groups regard it as non-canonical or non-inspired. Still, they may accept it as having some historical or theological interest.

 

[KevinT]

This was an interesting post. I just took a deep dive, reading about it on Wikipedia.

There are interesting details apparently in the text. It makes me wonder if it was all made up, all fictional? Or were some of the points true, but so corrupted to be unreliable and not safe to include with scriptures.

I'm curious about why you thought to make this post?

KT

 

[tonychanyt]

I'm curious about why you thought to make this post?

Someone asked the question on Reddit

 

[BobRyan]

The Book of Enoch could not have been written by Noah's great-grandfather. This is a weighty reason for excluding it from the canon. The author of the Book of Enoch was not inspired by God.

true.

But it is a collection of traditions and some of them my have a bit of truth in them mixed in with all the hay and stubble mentioned in 1 Cor 3.

Why was the book of Enoch quoted in Jude yet not included in the official canon?

The quote is included - just like other non-biblical references included in the Bible.

Does the Book of Enoch have any validity?

At least "something in it" is true since Jude 1 quotes from a tiny snip of it.