The Book of Enoch?

FireDragon76 said:

The problem with Heiser's hermeneutic was that he often confused what amounts to religious fan fiction with a kind of grimoire of the supernatural, drawing up a lurid, "manichean" cosmology as a result.

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No doubt.

What is more, there is little to nothing in common between Heiser’s interpretation of 1 Enoch and the faith of the pious and severely persecuted Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Christians, whose faith is simply that of the Oriental Orthodox writ large (basically, Coptic theology with a more Semitic, Judeo-Syrian liturgy reflecting Ethiopian Jewish and West Syriac Antiochian Christian influences. They do not interpret 1 Enoch in a manner that gives rise to any cosmological stumbling blocks. I daresay most Ethiopians are not influenced by 1 Enoch with regards to their cosmology in any meaningful way.

FireDragon76 said:

The problem with Heiser's hermeneutic was that he often confused what amounts to religious fan fiction with a kind of grimoire of the supernatural, drawing up a lurid, "manichean" cosmology as a result.

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At least he didn't go in for ancient astronaut conjectures.....

Although Heiser probably exaggerated some of his claims to profundity, I don't think he was wholly wrong on every count or that he clearly represented a "manichean" cosmology. I think there is something, at the least, to the Leviathan motif running through the ancients' religious mindsets of the Bronze Age (and even some into the Classical Age in looking at what ended up in the pool of Greek Myth and legend).

As for the Nephilim and giants and such....................... 'meh.'

Jude1:3Contendforthefaith said:

The Lord Jesus Christ Said The Book of Enoch Is Scripture :

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I don't think this video establishes a direct correspondence between the Matthean text and that of Enoch. It sounds more like an indirect echo.

What to make of it overall? I'm not sure since I'm not seeing much written about 1 Enoch in the Church Fathers (per Bercot) and I rather lean away from speculative theology. But, I'll keep what you've alluded to here in mind.

Connecting to "The Sons Of God" in Genesis and Psalms etc.

Deuteronomy 32 World View - There are Principalities That Rule over Nations​

Jude1:3Contendforthefaith said:

Connecting to "The Sons Of God" in Genesis and Psalms etc.

Deuteronomy 32 World View - There are Principalities That Rule over Nations​

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What I'm posting here isn't being provided out of any attempt to countermand what you've posted, particularly because I do like listening and reading some of what Heiser has said over the years (i.e. the last 10 years or so). But it just so happens that Sean McDowell released his most recent podcast video on Y.T. about 4 hours ago and it's relevant to what's being discussed here, so I'm posting it: