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Jerusalem Blade · #15 (**permalink**) 07-25-2008, 02:11 PM

Hello Peter, good to be discussing this with you.

It is not a problem to me that we don't know where the inspired author, Jude, got this quote from. Why would that be a problem? What we do know is that the Epistle of Jude, and all therein, is the word of God. He was moved by the Holy Spirit to write what he did. We can be assured the saying is genuinely Enoch's. Is it of great significance to know the source of the saying? Or put the other way, is it of great significance that we do not know the (intermediate) source?

When you suggest, "Someone could say that some unknown 'lost' book might have been part of the Septuagint or that some forgotten 'oral tradition' might have been divinely inspired. I don't think we want that", I'm not clear what you're getting at. The canons for both the OT and NT are closed.

New manuscript discoveries are very valuable and significant, though I cannot see anything being added to the canon of Scripture. Hypothetically, if an unknown epistle of Paul's were alleged to be found, I'm not sure what the repercussions of that would be. I do not believe the NT would be modified to now have 28 books in it.

Steve