Book of Enoch tied to Jewish Mysticism

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Hi all! I heard Candace promote the book of Enoch and I wanted to share a bit on that subject. I went down that rabbit hole a while back. This book is all the rage in the NAR movement and some areas of Protestant Charismatic Christianity. My family heritage is half Catholic and half Assemblies of God Charismatic Christianity, and since I converted to Catholicism about 35 years ago, I always look to what the Church teaches before I embrace an ideology or begin a devotion of some kind. I just saw too many irregular things in the Charismatic movement when I was young. Anyway, the Catholic Church did not include the book of Enoch in the canon for obvious reasons. It is considered pseudepigrapha, a writing falsely attributed to Enoch but written much later and attributed to him. The book was well known during Jesus' time, yes this is true, and is referred to in the Epistles, yes this is true, but it is was not taught in its entirety as a book that holds divine truth. There are passages in Enoch with ideas that directly contradict Sacred Scripture. For this reason it should be read as fiction and not as a religious text that one would follow as part of your spiritual belief system.

I thought I would share a link that I think does a good job explaining why the Book of Enoch should be read with caution and without ascribing the knowledge contained in it to be true and of God. It is very much tied to Jewish Mysticism and the New Age Movement. I hope Candace sees this and takes a look at it. There are so many podcasters right now intrigued by it and even promoting it that I felt I should share this resource and my research into it.

ENOCHIAN TEXTS AROSE FROM ESOTERIC JEWISH MYSTICISM: [https://www.christiananswersnewage.com/article/the-false-enoch-of-the-book-s-of-enoch-enochian-texts-arose-from-esoteric-jewish-mysticism-part-1](link url)
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[https://www.christiananswersnewage.com/article/the-false-enoch-of-the-book-s-of-enoch-enochian-texts-arose-from-esoteric-jewish-mysticism-part-2](link url)

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