I'm not endorsing this article but wanted to know what you guys thoughts are?
Did you know;
That there are many books mentioned in your Bible that are not in use today?
In Joshua 10:13 "The Book of Jasher" is mentioned. In 1Chronicles 29:29 "The Book of Samuel the Seer, and The Book of Nathan the Prophet, and The Book of Gad the Seer " are mentioned. In 2 Chronicles 9:29 " The Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and The Visions of Iddo the Seer " are mentioned. In 2 Chronicles 12:15 "The Book of Shemaiah the Prophet, and of Iddo the Seer " are mentioned. In 2 Chronicles 20:34 "The Book of Jehu" is mentioned. In 1 Kings 11:41 "The Book of The Acts of Solomon " is mentioned. Also, that there are several books that at one time were in the collection of the books of the Bible, and that these books were used as scripture by the apostles of the Messiah to teach the whole ChristianChurch doctrines of the righteousness of their Creator , but were taken our of the collection of the Books of the Bible and lost for centuries? For example in the epistle of Jude verse 14, we see that Jude is quoting from the book of Enoch 1:9. And in the epistle of Jude verse 9, we see that Jude is quoting from the book called, The Assumption of Moses. Also, in The Acts of Peter, we find the apostle Peter quoting from the book called, The Ascension of Isaiah. In regard to these books and the men who took them out of the Bible, and some of them being found again, we find an amazing article in the Dec. 7, 1935 edition of "Liberty" magazine which reads as follows: ""In the mountain fastness of Ethiopia there was preserved for thirteen centuries a precious manuscript which not only throws much light on the Bible but which also was itself IN THE BIBLE FOR FIVE CENTURIES and which SHOULD BE STORED TO THE CANON OF HOLY WRIT. The story is a fascinating one. When Frumentius, or some one else, translated the Bible into Ethiopic, or Geez, as it was then called, in the fourth century, the canon, (or books of the Bible recognized by the Congregation as the inspired rule of faith and practice) HAD NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED. For more than a century, scholars and Congregation officials debated as to whether or not certain gospels, epistles and apocalypses should be included. For instance, it was long debated which to include in the canon, the Book of Revelation, or the Book of Enoch, WHICH HAD BEEN ACCEPTED AS SCRIPTURE BY Christ AND PAUL, AND THE WHOLE Messianic Congregation, FOR SEVERAL CENTURIES. Revelation finally won out, and became the last book of the Bible. The Book of Enoch, under a stigma because deemed uncanonical, gradually dropped out of use, and finally disappeared. As time went on, scholars of the more intelligent sort desired more and more to see a copy of it. But there was none to be had. Centuries passed. A student of Arabic, James Bruce, a Scotsman, cherished the idea that the lost Book of Enoch still existed in an Ethiopic version. In 1768 he went to Ethiopia and six years later returned to London with three manuscripts of the Ethiopic Enoch, one of which he left to the British Museum. For over half a century Bruce"s precious manuscript remained on the shelves of the British Museum before it was translated by Richard Laurence, Archbishop of Cashel, Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford. Even then it was not until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that Canon R. H. Charles" translation and comment called the attention of scholars to the "immeasurable" importance of this document"" The book of Enoch, is in The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible.
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