Gerlinda (4 Apr 2012)
"To Jennie: re Michael Colunga"


 
Hi Jennie,   Regarding your post about the fact if God wanted the book of Enoch to be included in His Word, He would have inlcuded it........It wasn't God that removed those extra 14 books from the Bible...  they were removed in the 1880's by the English Revised Version of the King James Bible.  So, in all fairness to God's Word, as He gave it to men that were inspired by His Holy Spirit, perhaps there is a bit of a rush to judgement against Enoch and the other 13 books .    Please read my find on that subject in the  post below.   Did you read Arlene's great reply to Elaine Shealy?
 
gerlinda
 
Dear John & interested Doves, I find that the total number of books in the Bible held 80 (a much nicer number than the later versions reduced to 66)

Noah Webster

While Noah Webster, just a few years after producing his famous Dictionary of the English Language, would produce his own modern translation of the English Bible in 1833; the public remained too loyal to the King James Version for Webster’s version to have much impact. It was not really until the 1880’s that England’s own planned replacement for their King James Bible, the English Revised Version(E.R.V.) would become the first English language Bible to gain popular acceptance as a post-King James Version modern-English Bible. The widespread popularity of this modern-English translation brought with it another curious characteristic: the absence of the 14 Apocryphal books.

Up until the 1880’s every Protestant Bible (not just Catholic Bibles) had 80 books, not 66! The inter-testamental books written hundreds of years before Christ called “The Apocrypha” were part of virtually every printing of the Tyndale-Matthews Bible, the Great Bible, the Bishops Bible, the Protestant Geneva Bible, and the King James Bible until their removal in the 1880’s! The original 1611 King James contained the Apocrypha, and King James threatened anyone who dared to print the Bible without the Apocrypha with heavy fines and a year in jail. Only for the last 120 years has the Protestant Church rejected these books, and removed them from their Bibles. This has left most modern-day Christians believing the popular myth that there is something “Roman Catholic” about the Apocrypha. There is, however, no truth in that myth, and no widely-accepted reason for the removal of the Apocrypha in the 1880’s has ever been officially issued by a mainline Protestant denomination.

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/index.html


Jennie (3 Apr 2012)
"Re: Michael Colunga"


I agree with you 100%!!! If God wanted the Books of Enoch in the Bible, THEY WOULD BE IN THERE??? I worry because a lot of people are putting their Bibles down and only reading the Books of Enoch???

Deception is surly upon us in these last days YSIC Jennie
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2012/jennie43.htm