Post by MoGrace2U on Jul 26, 2010 10:02:20 GMT -5
I am a bit concerned that this book found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, is being used in support of Preterism - especially by the BCS group to support covenant creationism. Why do men think that this book was authored by Enoch as opposed to being written down after the fact from oral tradition in his name? Which is a more likely scenario it seems to me. It was never added to the Jewish canon even though it was well known and perhaps quoted by Jude. But if you look at what Jude says, he only speaks of what Enoch had prophesied - he does not say 'it is written'. And Jude seems to be referring to various traditions in this epistle as he refers to Israel's prophetic history.
I am more inclined to think that Moses wrote Genesis as a means to correct whatever Sumerian legends the Israelites would have heard during their 400 yr stay in Egypt. Which doesn't mean others didn't also record the oral traditions as well as history. I find it a bit unbelievable that Enoch would have been told every major historical detail of a people not even yet born a mere 400 years from Adam.
And it is Moses' writings that carry the confirmation of 'it is written' by the Lord Himself.
I am more inclined to think that Moses wrote Genesis as a means to correct whatever Sumerian legends the Israelites would have heard during their 400 yr stay in Egypt. Which doesn't mean others didn't also record the oral traditions as well as history. I find it a bit unbelievable that Enoch would have been told every major historical detail of a people not even yet born a mere 400 years from Adam.
And it is Moses' writings that carry the confirmation of 'it is written' by the Lord Himself.
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