@divegeester said
I’m claiming that your assertion that the book Enoch is NOT scripture because it’s not in the bible, is bogus and contradicted by the text in Timothy which I gave you.
This Old Testament blarney is just a deflection by you.
There was no book called bible / scripture used by the Jews before Christ. They were just a collection of scrolls and they consisted of all the books in the present OT Bible plus about 12 other books. In the time of Christ the bible used by the Apostles was the Septuagint which was the Greek version of these Hebrew scrolls.
The fact that the people have removed these books from the OT should make one question everything done by men since the time of Christ. They removed OT books considered 'scripture' by Christ, and decided which books would form the NT in the present bible.
Books like Enoch and several others were considered inspired books or sacred writings by the Jews. A book that is not in the bible does not make its contents less true or accurate than one in the bible. The Jews had a whole list of books they considered inspired.
The present-day Christian is a very narrowminded and shallow personality when it comes to the history and evolution of the current bible and all the changes that were made over the last 2000 yrs. Cleary God is not part of, neither has he inspired these changes.