Why is the Book of Enoch not in the Bible? In the time of Christ and the first Apostles the belief in the Book of Enoch had a lot of influence on the New Testament scriptures being written with Jesus and Jude and Peter and John clearly including Enoch's teachings and building on them. Up until the time of the early Church Fathers that faith continued but later it waned. Gradually people started to forget about the Book of Enoch or doubt it more and more. When the first Bibles were put together the Book of Enoch was left out except with the Bible of the Ethiopic and Eritrean Orthodox Church and some other orthodox believers also kept it. In Europe most people lost the knowledge of the existence of the Book of Enoch and by the time they were publishing 66 book Bibles they did not know about any copies of it. Eventually the Book of Enoch was discovered again by a Scottish freemason traveller but by then the 66 book Bible was so popular nobody wanted to add further books to it and probably too few people would pay the extra to buy a larger Bible.
