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==== - Non-historicity Most modern scholars consider 1 Enoch a pseudepigraphal work—attributed to Enoch but actually written centuries later. Its purpose is visionary and symbolic, not a factual account of angels or pre-flood events readingacts.com<ref>{{cite web|title=readingacts.com|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch|publisher=en.wikipedia.org|access-date=2026-01-01}}</ref>. ====
* Symbolic significance The Watchers reflect theological and cultural anxieties—ritual purity, corruption of knowledge, and identity under foreign influence—especially during the Hellenistic era .
* '''Canon and faith alignment''' The Book's theological differences—bold cosmology, angelic determinism, alternative afterlife views—stood at odds with emerging orthodoxy. That, more than any political suppression, led to its exclusion for most Christian traditions christiantone.com<ref>{{cite web|title=christiantone.com|url=https://christiantone.com/why-stay-away-from-the-book-of-enoch/|publisher=christiantone.com|access-date=2026-01-01}}</ref>presentingthegospel.com<ref>{{cite web|title=presentingthegospel.com|url=https://www.presentingthegospel.com/post/why-was-the-book-of-enoch-excluded-from-the-protestant-canon-exploring-its-history-influence-and|publisher=presentingthegospel.com|access-date=2026-01-01}}</ref>.

===== - 1 Enoch is ancient, pre-Christian, and features elaborate angelic mythology. =====
* Jude and some Church Fathers reference it, demonstrating its early influence.

===== - Treating it as a literal, historical cosmology rather than a symbolic, theological myth. =====
* Presenting it as “suppressed truth” ignores legitimate doctrinal and historical reasons for exclusion.

Would you like me to explore any argument further (e.g. archaeological parallels, intertestamental Jewish contexts, comparative angelology), or examine specific site passages more closely?