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The Book of Enoch

haired people that Enoch’s people considered to be Angels of God, and it

was written on the angels’ instruction.

The standard academic view seems to be that some slightly demented

religious fanatic wrote the book - not long before the earliest provable

fragments, (200 or 300BC). I think it is impossible to support this view.
Such an author would have to be able to write the entire book from the

point of view of a person who knows nothing of countries with names, or
religions with names. Then he goes on to describe the Angels as blond

men, who ran away from Heaven in order to be promiscuous with women.
I don’t believe this is the sort of world view that would have been well

received or widely accepted anywhere in 200 BC. This plus the all too

accurate prophecies are probably the reasons why it was ‘lost’ by the

religions that used to regard it as holy.

I concluded that the book is probably what it appears to be; well preserved,

ancient and genuine. Enoch was the great-grandfather of Noah, and father

of Methuselah, and his book gives a unique view of the world before the

flood; which recent research suggests may have occurred as long ago as

17,000 BC.

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