Ross asked:

Sir, What do you think of The Book of Enoch? I am a Christian with many questions. I am wandering
why it was left out of the Bible. Should it be read as a book of fact or a book fiction?

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I think with religious writings it highly depends on the way of reading and comprehension, whether
someone regards this work to be fact or fiction. For example to a logical positivist religious writing
often is contradictory in itself and it's assertions are not empirically provable and therefore religious
writing is worthless fiction. On the other hand to a truly believing person the same writing is fact,
because it is inspired by if not directly the word of God.

Your other question, why the Book of Enoch was left out of the Bible, is easier to answer straightly:
The Book of Enoch, also known as Ethiopic Enoch,fell into disfavour among powerful theologians
because of its controversial descriptions of the nature and deeds of the fallen angels. That's why the
Enochian writings (among many others) were omitted from the Bible.

But once he Book of Enoch was considered to be among the biblical apocryphal writings and was
highly appreciated by the early church fathers, among them St. Augustine, and so there might be
much more profane reasons for later banning writings like the Book of Enoch from the biblical canon.

Apocryphal is derived from the Greek and means "hidden" or "secret." Originally it had a positive
meaning, and was applied to sacred books with contents considered to be too exalted to be made
available to the general public.

Little by little the idea was accepted that such books were left to be read by the wise. Therefore, the
term "apocrypha" began taking on a negative meaning to the orthodoxy, who felt being kept in the
dark by not being told the teachings of these books. The clergy that was not admitted into these
esoteric circles, because they were thought not to be enlightened, soon banned apocryphal material
heretical, which meant: forbidden to read for all. As a result the book was lost for a thousand years.
But the Book of Enoch eventually reappeared. It was brought to England by the explorer James
Bruce, who found three copies of the Book of Enoch during an expedition to Ethiopia. Later it was
translated by Dr. Richard Laurence, an Oxford Hebrew professor, that gave the modern world its first
glimpse of the Enochian mysteries.

It might be interesting for you, that there is some proof that Christ Himself approved of the Book of
Enoch. Over a hundred phrases in the New Testament find precedents in the Book of Enoch. Two of
these phrase are in the Book of Jude: vs. 14 tells us that "Enoch, the seventh from Adam,
prophesied..." Jude also, in vs. 15, makes a direct reference to the Book of Enoch (2:1), where he
writes, "to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly..." The time difference between
Enoch and Jude is approximately 3400 years. Therefore, Jude's reference to the Enochian
prophesies shows, that these written prophecies were available to him at that time.

Simone Klein