Why Were Some Books Left Out Of The Bible?

[Crown]

Amen 🙏🏽so many people are being deceived and turned away from the faith by this...Yehweh makes NO mistakes. His power goes beyond our low understanding and if He wanted these books in the Bible, He would put them there. Imagine how many times throughout history that Satan tried to destroy the Word and the legacy of Jesus all together. He Murdered Jesus, lies on him, Outlawed the Bible, making the reading of Yehwehs Word punishable by death. Yet Here the Word stands. Fully alive and In tact. Hallelujah🙌🏽. Yehweh has the First and Final Say!

[Pervy]

Fantastic video Dr.Brown. Don't stop making things like this.

[callalilymoon]

Thank you for your teaching... I have been reading Enoch and Jasher and find them both fascinating and Illuminating, as they add much depth to some of the stories in the Bible and background information. I realize they may not be worthy of Canon but I for one was very glad to have read them!

[jaredmarc]

Thank you for this amazing explanation. God bless you and God bless everyone else. 🙏🙏🙏

[MosheHaMayim]

Many false teachers need the rejected books to just take a verse or 2 out to support an erroneous doctrine they are pushing. If one verse is true, then the entire book must be treated as true. In the first few centuries, there were 100's of spurious gospels and epistles floating around and even being preached and taught from. I own books containing these rejected "scriptures" and you do not have to read very far before understanding why they were tossed away and rejected. Trust what you have in your hands today. The one who stretched out the heavens of the heavens of the heavens is surely able to get what He wanted us to have in our hands. After 40+ years of scripture study and reading, I am still learning wonderful new things all the time and I have plenty enough in my bible to keep me busy without adding anymore to it.

[renzgrand]

Thank You Dr. Brown great explanations put my mind at ease to mal intentions for leaving books out just didn’t correlate with correct intentions

[robertpapiedoe]

Thanks Dr. Brown for that clear explanation, may God continue to bless you and protect you and your family..

[roncarnino]

Lord Please deliver this truth to every Spirit filled Christian! AMEN!!!

[Vern_Levine]

Very well produced and fantastic content! Great stuff!

[KeithHiew]

I somehow still think Enoch 1 should be in the Bible. It would clear up certain questions.
Jasher was okay until I got to the part where Isaac was supposed to be sacrificed by Abraham, and then you see a different narrative emerging from the one in Genesis.

[waynehampson]

I believe Polycarp quoted from 24 of the 27 books and he was a disciple of the apostle John.

[Danny-BigD]

How can so many Christians that say JESUS IS REAL! Have SO many questions? Where is this CHRIST right now? In YOU! Did He not say my sheep hear my voice? Even as its written the sweet sweet holy Spirit talks. And we READ we can ask the Father anything.. we can ask Christ anything.. we read if you know He aka GOD hears you then you know you have the petitions you prayed for. His will is His word. And if we doubt let not that man think he will get ANYTHING from God.


So... ASK HIM.. we say OH JESUS I LOVE YOU..we raise our hands we tell people.. is HE REAL or not? Is He a friend? A best friend? A brother? A savoir? YOUR GOD? How you would like to be with some one day and night.. ALWAYS with them.. they NEVER talk or just to ask (Hello me).. talk to Him.. good morning.. good afternoon..good night.. what ever.. He cares about EVERY part of your life. He is NOT like man. Lost your keys. He would be the 1st every time to help look. Lost them 80 times.. He would just laugh and make if fun.. this GOD! Loves.. you


TALK TO HIM! And then.. as you treat others? Yeah..give HIM time to answer.. as you wait on the lord.. your strength is renewed.

[briidanielle_]

I genuinely wondered why some books were left out of the Bible, and questions indeed give space for the truth! if God wanted these books in the Bible, He surely would have made a way—it's not hard for Him, the Maker of all the universe! thank you, Dr. Brown 🫶🏽

[GenevaPilgrim]

professor Rachel Elior has given several lectures on this topic and she would disagree. In her article for the Jerusalem post she said:
"To many of the Jews of the first millennium BCE, all the texts had been equally holy, " she says. "The [excluded] Book of Enoch or Book of Jubilees were certainly not considered less sacred than the [canonical] Book of Judges or Esther or Daniel." Yet the excluded texts - close to a dozen major works - were not just abandoned but excised as if they were a malignant growth. "Whoever reads them, " declared Rabbi Akiva, one of the foremost sages involved in the process, "will have no place in the world to of quote

She also pointed out that if it were not for Hanania son of Hezekiah (not the bible Hezekiah) that the book of Ezekiel wouldn't be in the Bible either and she quotes from talmudic tractate Shabbat (13b) where it says this and I did look it up just to fact check her and she is correct.

Her reason is that the extra books refer to the priestly calendar-the exact same one that was found with the Dead Sea Scrolls. She also claims that the Dead Sea Scrolls were likely the library of the sons of Zadok and not the Essenes as was previously thought by a Catholic monk who declared them to be an Essene library long before they had even found many of the scrolls they have now. Today based on the scrolls that were found, the new man that is in charge of the dead sea scrolls is convinced there is no way it was an Essene library.

You say Enoch is out because we can't prove it was him who wrote it. Interesting, because there are other books in the Bible that we can't prove who wrote them either. Even Dr Michael Heiser has pointed this out.

Also, you said no one in the Bible referred to the book of Enoch being scripture. That is incorrect. When the Pharisees confronted Jesus about who's wife the woman who had several husband's would be in heaven and Jesus said "You err because you do not know the SCRIPTURES for they neither marry or are given in marriage in heaven, but will be like the angels."

That idea and statement cannot be found anywhere in the OT at all and when Jesus said that, there was only the OT and the extra books like Enoch, Jubilees etc. But in the book of Enoch it does state that in heaven there is no marriage because marriage is strictly an earthly thing given to humans while on earth. Enoch also refers to humans becoming like angels in heaven. SO if it's not in the OT and it IS in the book of Enoch and Jesus tells the Pharisees that they don't know the SCRIPTURES or they would know this, then what scriptures is he speaking about? And truth be told, the word "scriptures" in Greek is actually translated from the word "Graphas" in Greek which means "writings" and Enoch is certainly a writing.

[carmenoneal]

dead sea scrolls Enoch, for the last generation and why iy has gained such popularity

[markalexander]

I'M PROUD OF U SIR, U R MY ONE OF THE FAVORITE APOLOGISTS 😇

[pastorart]

Excellent!

Please, Dr. Brown, do a video about the 16 books of the Apocrapha. Why do Protestants reject all of them, but Roman Catholics accept 7 of them?

[RaeiFlames]

Thanks for the video Dr. Highly appreciated

[stephaniechochotte]

Jacob Ilive was NOT sent to prison for forging the Book of Jasher. His name was not ever credited or connected in any way to his Book of Jasher as he anonymously published it. It was many years after Ilive's death when his assistant finally admitted the truth about it's authorship. However Ilive was condemned for blasphmy and was sentenced two years imprisonment at Clerkenwell Bridewell for another publication he wrote and printed titled “Remarks On The Excellent Discourses By A Searcher After Religious Truth” where he attacked Bishop Thomas Sherlock's recent publication of his sermons. During his imprisonment, Ilive wrote “Reasons offered for the Reformation of the House of Correction in Clerkenwell” which helped start the movement for reformation of the corrupt prison system. Ilive also did some real service to Biblical statistics in 1747 by publishing a second 4 volume edition of “Calasio's Concordantice Sacrorum Bibliorum”
Ironicly, Ilive's Book of Jasher, also known as “Pseudo-Jasher”, is recognized by the Rosicrucian Order and is still in publication today.
Another Book of Jasher, probably much more famous book, which was first Printed in Hebrew in Venice in 1625. Supposedly there had been a version printed in Naples in 1552 but no trace has ever been found. The original printer from 1625, Yosèf ben Samuel, claimed the work was copied by a scribe named Jacob the son of Atyah, from an ancient manuscript whose letters could hardly be made out. When the 1625 Venice book was first published it was heavily criticized as a forgery by Jewish Scholar Leon Modena. It was eventually obtained and translated to English in 1828 by a Hebrew scholar in Liverpool named Moses Samuel, However, after a second publication of Ilive's Jasher was printed in 1829 just before Samuel had finished it, so to avoid confusion he decided not to publish it. A few years later Samuel sold the rights to Mordecai Manuel Noah, a prominent Jewish writer and newspaper editor-publisher in New York who published it in 1840. Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Latter Day Saints, acquired a copy of the “Sefer ha Yashar” (Book of Jasher 1840 translation) around 1841 or 1842 and wrote in the September 1, 1842 edition of the Times and Seasons, in reference to the patriarch Abraham: "the book of Jasher, which has not been disproved as a bad author, says he was cast into the fire of the Chaldeans".
In 1886, Joseph Hyrum Parry of Salt Lake City acquired the rights to the translation from Mordecai Noah's estate. It was published by J. H. Parry & Company in Salt Lake City in 1887 and this Book of Jasher has become accepted by the Mormons and the Church of the Latter-Day Saints.
In the preface to the 1625 version still claims that its original source book came from the ruins of Jerusalem in AD 70, where a Roman officer named Sidrus allegedly discovered a Hebrew scholar hiding in a hidden library. The officer Sidrus reportedly took the scholar and all the books safely back to his estates in Seville, Spain (in Roman times was known as Hispalis, the provincial capital of Hispania Baetica). The 1625 edition then claims that at some uncertain point in the history of Islamic Spain, the manuscript was transferred or sold to the Jewish college in Cordova, Andalusia. The 1625 edition further claims that scholars preserved the book until its printings in Naples in 1552 and in Venice in 1625. Apart from the preface to the 1625 work, there is no evidence to support any of this story.
Whether this Book of Jasher is real scripture or not, it is quite an interesting read with many details about Abraham and Nimrod that are not found in the Written Torah, much like a Midrash or the writings from an Oral Torah. Much more interesting than Ilive's Pseudo Jasher.

[orbislacteusbrahman]

They Said, "Write All These Things that you have Seen in a Book and Hide them"

The Book of Jasher Mentioned in Joshua 10:13,  2 Samuel 1:18
The Book of the Wars of the Lord Numbers 21:14
The Book of the Acts of Solomon 1 Kings 11:41
The Book of Nathan 1 Chronicles 29:29,  2 Chronicles 9:29
The Book of Gad 1 Chronicles 29:29
The Prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite 2 Chronicles 9:29
The Book of Iddo 2 Chronicles 9:29,  2 Chronicles 12:15,  2 Chronicles 13:22
The Book of Shemaiah 2 Chronicles 12:15
The Book of Jehu 2 Chronicles 20:34
The Account of the Chronicles of King David 1 Chronicles 27:24
The Story of the Book of Kings 2 Chronicles 24:27
The Acts of Uzziah 2 Chronicles 26:22
The Vision of Isaiah, the Son of Amoz 2 Chronicles 32:32
The Sayings of the Seers 2 Chronicles 33:19
The Book of the Kings of Israel 2 Chronicles 33:18
The Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia Esther 2:23,  Esther 6:1,  Esther 10:2
The Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel 2 Kings 8:23,  2 Chronicles 16:11,  2 Chronicles 27:7

Book of Enoch Quoted in Jude 1:14 - 15
Psalms 151 Septuagint
Wisdom of Solomon Codex Sinaiticus
Tobit Codex Sinaiticus
Judith Codex Sinaiticus
Baruch Septuagint
Bel and the Dragon Septuagint
Prayer of Azariah Septuagint
1 Maccabees Codex Sinaiticus
4 Maccabees Codex Sinaiticus
Sirach Codex Sinaiticus

Barnabas Codex Sinaiticus
Shepherd of Hermas Codex Sinaiticus