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Friday 1 October 2021

The Bible

The Revelation warning against adding or removing from it, is erroneously applied to the English Bible, assuming, because Revelation is listed last in the printed Bible, it was written last. They say there can therefore only be 66 books, ruling out the Book of Enoch. They are blissfully unaware that the 66 book list of books for English Church bibles was determined centuries later. They also blissfully fail to consider that some scriptures such as Jude and 2 Peter were very likely written a decade after the Book of Revelation was written. So their doctrine would erroneously apply the Revelation curse to any scriptural epistles written later, such as 2 Peter and Jude. The Westminster Confession and Thirty-Nine articles were written a lot later too. These are the laws of the English Church (limiting the Bible) which led to this kind of error.  It is clear from the context of Revelation that it warns against adding to or taking away from the contents of that specific holy Book of Revelation part of which was dictated to John by the Lord Jesus Himself. The Book of Enoch was written long before, so of course it does not add to the Book of Revelation. Let us throw off folly and error and falsehood and worship God in spirit and in truth, as Jesus taught.