Personal Thoughts on the Time of Noah, The Book of Enoch, the Second Coming (probably a vanity)

My overactive imagination ^ | 5 November 2004 | concretebob

[xJones]

Hey, good to see you around! This is a playpen thread so have you looked at the hermaphrodite in #12?

[xJones]

They are free to pull or ZOT at their will

Unfortunately for you, I think this thread's been left hanging out to dry, but thanks for the thread, we enjoy it!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Thanks for the post. Makes more sense than all the usual shiite masquerading as Biblical doctrine.

This is exciting stuff...seriously.

Yes, it is!

[The Hollywood Conservative]

There she is... uh... he is... uh... you know what I mean...

[concretebob]

"All that is hidden will be made known"
Nothing ambiguous about that statement. Pretty straight forward and to the point.
Hold on...what did He mean by "all"?
Everything????
I get to know everything??? Maybe I don't need to know everything. Maybe I don't WANT to know everything.
How does this happen? Who opens the doors, who uncovers the information? and while we're at it, who the heck hid it in the first place and why? Is hidden just a metaphor for "currently unavailable?"
Looking for one specific tree in a forest, you climb one to see if you can spot the one you're looking for. What you fail to realize is, the tree you've just climbed is the one you're looking for, you're just to close to see it.

As a construction professional, I deal with plans and specifications every day. It's a constant search for information during the construction process, and there are several sets of plans that must be referenced to complete the building. Everything, theoretically, is there, you just have to look for it.

[concretebob]

"Unfortunately for you, I think this thread's been left hanging out to dry, but thanks for the thread, we enjoy it!"

if just one person gets interested its not unfortunate.

Unfortunate is when someone dimisses new ideas out of hand, without research or discussion.

[Fithal the Wise]

Jude quoted the book of Enoch and there were at least 20 fragmentary copies of 1 Enoch found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

IMHO, the way to view Enoch is to see if it supports, contradicts or fills in the blanks of Genesis and Revelation.

[concretebob]

IMHO, The Book of Enoch fills in the gaps, and supplements, Genesis and Revelations.
Which is precisely why it was left out of the collection chosen to be included in what we consider our Old Testament.

Could I impose upon someone to link me to the instructions for posting images?

[Fithal the Wise]

Try the insructions here;

http://www.boardhost.com/help/posting_images.html

[wise_steward]

Hi all,

To anyone interested in understanding the Book of Enoch and how it fits canon scripture you should check this out.

A little while back I came across a christian forum where some guy had posted a book he claimed God gave him that includes the pseudoepigraphic writings of Enoch and some others. I cut and paste the link.

THE CALLED" - by Rahman Reuben - Chapters 1 to 3 - http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2289&forum=35&29

I read the three chapters and found them so interesting. This guy got a lot of heat from some on that forum for mixing the Bible with these other books but what I read made me want to read the rest so I bought the book off Amazon -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1597814644/002-9770760-7320839?_encoding=UTF8&s=books&v=glance

All I can say is I have read Genesis before but after reading this book it makes a lot more sense now. I also did some more research on Wickepedia about the Enoch book and found that it is included as canon in the ethiopian church but not in the western church.The Enoch book was tossed out in 326 a.d. by a Catholic counsel at Laodicea. It also says that the book of Jude was almost not included in the Bible because it quoted from this book. Kinda weird to me why a book that seems to fill in the blanks of the first couple of chapters of Genesis so well is so rejected. It has sure made me wonder why since it talks about hell so much. More rings true to me in this book of Enoch than not. I hope this guys book really takes off just for the controversy of discussion it could cause in our western church.

Wes