Enoch Research Paper

It is almost that this angel was so dangerous and volatile God had to put them in this position. The lead angel begs Enoch to petition their case to God to release them from this punishment and their request is denied. This also infuriated God because man is lesser than an angel. Writings like Dante's Inferno looks largely like it would have been inspired by work of Enoch. Also there are various scriptures of the New Testament that you can match up Enoch’s work with, within the New Testament. The powerful angel named Uriel becomes Enoch’s guide. Who Enoch travels in Heaven with. Enoch states God has provided him with the powers are through the Stars. Enoch was one of the most popular books amongst Christians in ancient times. God was glorious enough to reveal the positions of the Stars to Enoch and he wrote them down. This may go back to the role of astronomy during the Babylonian, Egyptian, Persian, and Greek Empires or a new awareness that constellations are not just constellations and they may be constellations of power ordained by God. We know that with the early Christians the writings of Enoch were authoritative and were used as you would use other books of the Bible. For our Cannon today it would seem a little strange because it has not been used or taught in the west for hundreds of years. However there is no doubt that it was not widely read and very popular. …show more content…
Until the mid-twentieth century it seemed The Book of Enoch was only read by the early Christians but now it is known that was always with the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Menelik the son of Solomon was the first Ethiopian King. This may be part of the reason why Enoch probably became part of the Ethiopian