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Too many problems with the Book of Enoch

(Image: Hieronymus Bosch)   I have a high view of scripture. The science of Textual Criticism shows that what we have today is what was originally written down, and I believe that God inspired the words in the Holy Bible. I know God is infallible, but people are not. Even believers led by the Holy Spirit fail and fall.  With that said, I have faith in God's ability to give us the books He intends for us to have. He is not a God of confusion, yet many people who accept the Book of Enoch also accept other books as well, but in order to do that, they resort to casting doubts on the books that are accepted as Canon. Thanks to the Muratonian Canon, circa 180 AD, we know that 22 of the 27 books of the New Testament were already accepted as Canon by the end of the 2nd Century AD. (Apocryphal books were not added to the Catholic Canon until the Council of Trent in 1546 to rebut the reformation and Martin Luther.)  There are good reasons Apocryphal, Pseudepigraphal, and the variou...