I just finished reading something that made my years stick up and it was concerning the the debate about the book of Enoch and its validity vs. The genesis account in chapter six, with the focus being on which came first. The author made a case that I would consider to be irrefutable. By and large, the early church fathers considered Enoch to be authentic and that the genesis six account did, in fact, describe the events that transpired between the" sons of God" and the daughters of men and the product of that copulation that but and produced the nephillim. It wasn't until almost two centuries afterwards that the later church fathers decided that it was heresy to even consider the possibility of sexual encounters between angels and humans, and with that they'd disavowed any credibility that the book of Enoch had acquired.
The book of Enoch was all but forgotten except for being stored away in the Ethiopian canon, and was not rediscovered until the late 1700s. But obviously the ancient Hebrews considered the book of Enoch to be authentic, considering that there was fragments from six different copies found in the dead sea scrolls. I consider Enoch to be authentic and have yet to see any conflict with the canonized scriptures. According to this author of the piece that I just read, she thinks the genesis six version is a summary of the account in Enoch and the book of Enoch is much, much older than the book of genesis. The very fact that Yeshua/Jesus quoted from Enoch and the book of Jude took a direct quote out of it, should be enough to at least consider that it is the real deal, even for the most hardcore purist of the K JV.
I found this line of thought really interesting when you factor in the sumerian clay tablets, essentially telling the same story. Or was it telling the same story?
still can not get past the genesis account that, seemingly, gives given room for two different creation events. You cannot ignore the differences in the two. I don't buy the summary account of the second story. What I don't understand is why most of Christiandom is not interested in the antediluvian period like I am. It is my guess that they don't know because it would upset the nursery rhyme than fairy tales that they have injected into the scriptural explanation of events. Sunrise services, Easter egg hunts, pony rides an weenie roasts, it doesn't matter how, just get em'in and sign em'up! About all modern churches want you to toe the line and believe what they tell you to believe so that there won't be any sweaty moments. It is really sad.LOL, I want the truth because I can handle the truth, most folks can't.
As you can see, I am using the voice reprobation program again and it appears to be learning ever so slowly. It really is getting better but when I began using this program, it almost drove me crazy and I mean insane.
OK, boys and girls, I will be here all day tomorrow and Wednesday due to the extreme cold weather headed our way, so y'all need to just come on out and play with me and have some fun. Humph!! I bragged on this damn program and since then it has been nothing but a cluster.