I didn't call anyone a cult, I merely stated that a single source of controversial evidence is how cults are formed. I mean look at LDS, a claim to finding ancient gold plates in the ground which this secret knowledge. There are groups of Christians that have nuanced beliefes based on extra biblical sources and they all cite their reasons for it but just because those groups exists doesnt validate their claims. If we embrace Enoch why not all the other extra biblical sources as well? Who gets to decided what is ordained and what is not? Because the church already had that conversation in the 4th century. So you disagree with that, well that's your right but it still doesn't fit the criteria.
To equate the real Book of Enoch with the LDS is simply not wise, not at all.
You have made claims that are provably false about Enoch,
and the “church” is not the Holy Spirit that decided in the 4th century that the Book of Enoch was not to be read....
Thank God, the Holy Spirit is not in agreement with those who would play such dangerous games with the minds of men as to tell men “
they know what they can and can’t believe about what is inspired or not. Jesus says in Revelation 2:6 That
He hates the deeds of the Nico laitians which means, literally, those that rule over/to conquer the laity. That means that those who tell the laity what to believe, and control them in beliefs of what is inspired or not, are hated by Jesus, so early “Church” rulers of a certain area ruled over the laity by playing as if they were the “Holy Spirit”
The book of Enoch is canon in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and has been kept in the books deemed sacred writing by the Jews in Ethiopia who received the Gospel for over 2,000 years.
The DSS Enoch manuscripts discovered in the Qumran caves in 1947 agree with the real Book of Enoch in the Ethiopian “canon”.
So the lies about that book are proven to be lies, and history confirms Enoch in the early Church writings also, and in the NT, and in every place one looks, in the Torah, the prophets, the wisdom books -like even Job, and in the NT, to anywho is familiar with the writings.
As to the writings of Enoch,, the book of the giants written by Enoch is also is in the manuscripts of the DSS.
The DSS manuscripts are copies, of copies, of copies that go back to the original sources.
Abram -before his name change by YHVH to AbraHam, lived with Noah and Shem at Mount Moriah, when hiding out from Nimrod, who wanted to kill him, and who later, after the fall of the Tower of Babel when Abram was 49 years old, came out of Noah and Shem’s house.
Nimrod, BTW, is the same Am Rapha El “Amraphael” who is the king in Genesis 14 that Abraham chased back up to his own country, to Hobah, on the left of Damascus (Nimrod’s home city, as to my own research.)
In Noah’s house, Abram would have made his own copy of the book of Enoch, and he had Enoch the prophet’s book when he came out of their house, and in the DSS scrolls, Abraham’s own testimony in his own 1st person writing -they always wrote their stories- Abraham writes that when the men of Pharaoh returned Sarai/Sarah to him, they asked him to teach them wisdom, values, and truth, and so he “read to them from the book of Enoch”.
As to that reading, in the ancient Egyptian history, they once worshipped the true God as He was depicted in the Book of Enoch, as “the Amen/the truth, who was hidden with God in heaven, and who is God, who made all things and himself was not made -and so on”.
As Paul wrote, all nations once knew the Truth, and changed the glory of God into a lie, and made images of idolatry of the created things (to paraphrase from Romans 1), and in Revelation 3:14, we read:
“These things Saith the Amen”, the faithful and True Witness, the Beginning/Arche (the active cause of of the origin of all things) of the Creation of God.
I did a thread on this board including Jesus Christ as the once hidden in God Son of Man, who was with God, who was God, and who made all things, and who was revealed to the Egyptians by Abraham from the Book of Enoch as the Truth/Amen and who the Egyptians worshipped as the Amen, and wrote extensively about Him as ancient tablets reveal, but “turned his Truth into a lie over the centuries, and changed His truth into a Lie” as all nations seem to do, over time -even our own!
But YHVH reveals that He will return the Egyptians to Himself in the last days, in Isaiah 19:22-25, we see Egypt
returns to YHVH -for He Yeshua/Christ who was once hidden in God, with God, who is God, is to be revealed even to them.
The history book of the Upright, called the real Book of Jasher has much of the chronology of the times of the Patriarchs in it, and is worth reading for those who like to know history.
