You have this exactly backwards.
OT stories prefigure Christ, in the effort to enable at least somebody to grasp what was going on. The similarities do work both ways through time.
In many ways this also happened to other cultures, throughout the world.
Your perspective contains exactly 0 reality.
I have more Life than you can comprehend.
You don't know what either of those words mean.
You can't summarize anything I've said that way.
You don't know what any of these words mean.
Including "quoting," a concept you've never grasped.
I can't imagine what word is new to you that you might be referring to, Junior.
This is simply more proof that it's a false gospel.
Enochic Judaism include: the idea that evil and impurity on Earth originated as a result of angels
Completely false.
That's what happens when you get your theology from Wikipedia, you get led astray by every foolish suggestion you encounter because you literally don't know any better.
This extends throughout the rest of your comment.. Wikipedia pays big money to make sure every article has leftist ideology; none of this is even concerned with accuracy.
You know nothing about any of this.
You still get your theology from Wikipedia.
You've still never been to church.
Ideologically, you are a Houthi.
You are correct! Although the term "Deuterocanonical" is helpful to introduce here, as apocrypha is also used in ways that don't pertain to Enoch and that makes everything confusing. Deuterocanon simply means second Canon, which is appropriate.
Additionally, most of the difficult sayings of Jesus quote the book of Enoch. This is important because it tells us that Jews of His day read Enoch, enough to be VERY familiar with it.
Parts of Enoch make it impossible to miss that Jesus was the Promised Messiah, and these parts were written more than 150 years before He was born. It then becomes significant why Jews felt it necessary to remove Enoch from their Canon.
Has nothing to do with gnosticism.
You perpetuate your ignorance.
Oh, a wise guy huh?
Good!
Personally, I'd like him to pick ONE instance of "genocide," a completely anachronistic term, and to discuss that one reasonably from every angle until it's exhausted.
The basic issues include the teaching tool of moral dilemma, which appears countless times throughout the OT. It's designed to cultivate critical thinking. This idea completely clashes with the bias he inherently brings to the topic. It will help him to discover the source of that bias; he mentioned a prior gf and I imagine she DID influence him, but I bet he'll discover earlier influences in his life. That will be key.
My interest here is solely to help him understand the literature in question, which is in fact difficult. It's also richly rewarding! Just at the level of literature.
There's a lot we can learn about this online, that gives insight into the whole sheep thing in Scripture.
Basically they are very smart; smart enough that they have distinct personalities. They also are extremely picky about who they trust and who they do not. I guess that makes sense when you're basically lunch on a stick for wolves. And while modern shepherds use guns and sheepdogs in combination, and sheepdogs are some of the most dangerous dogs there are for this exact reason, (they're bred to fight to the death and you aren't breaking their skull which is the guaranteed way to definitely stop most dogs that might attack) Biblical shepherds relied on different techniques.
Those techniques were common knowledge at the time, and therefore never explained in Scripture. I don't remember the details off the top of my head well enough to explain it clearly, but I do recall that it adds a lot of richness to the Word.
Personally, the most interaction I've had with a sheep was getting to the point where one would ram into me because it wanted affection. They are surprisingly forceful, and unsurprisingly related to ... Rams! I was shocked by this at first, and frankly so was the shepherd; sheep don't usually take to someone that quickly.
naive and trusting and not to use your critical faculties
This is completely false.
This is proven extensively through Scripture - but again this is not something that can be addressed quickly and easily.
This is NOT what sheep refer to in Scripture!
NOT AT ALL
This is only one of the many things that we as English speakers inherently miss out on, that ANE (ancient near east) culture understood as common knowledge.
David was a shepherd; as such, he had intimate knowledge of sheep. Have you even met a shepherd?
Never happened.
Salvation: Gnosticism emphasizes knowledge (gnosis) as the path to salvation.
Which is not salvation in any sense of the word.
This is entirely opposite from Christianity.
You go ahead and prepare for your final exam, which upon passing you will be granted entrance into Eternal Life.
Meanwhile:
"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them." (Revelation 20:12)
Quick, what Old Testament writing is this based on? I'm sure you not only don't know, but have no idea how to find out. Go ahead and search your Wikipedia, it might even give you a correct answer. Which does not at all mean you would have any understanding of it.
You are correct in what you think. I don't believe Jesus was real, I believe he was a trick rustled up by Jews
History proves Jesus was real, much to the chagrin of Jews.
Your expressed thinking is entirely backwards here. There is also much to be learned about the development of the Bible itself that speaks to these facts ...
Why order the murder of babies? And of livestock?
There are definite answers to this.
Understanding even just one of them requires patience; and there are many different answers, all of which have their own unique facet of truth.
Perhaps the place to begin is by looking at where these appear in Scripture, and how incredible it is that we can recover any meaning at all from such ancient scribblings. Have you devoted any effort to this?
Following Jesus is EXACTLY why the US was founded!
The challenge, as you put it, is deep. While it certainly is an opportunity to grow, it's not the easiest step to take, and neither is it a small one. I urge you to pray, to see if God even wants you addressing this in your own walk at this time.
I suggest that exploring what SS is into is an essential prerequisite to this topic, broadly. Also that Jewish teaching on this includes many perspectives, none of which deserve to be ignored. I seriously doubt that OP has the patience for any of this, if he has even a drop of sincerity. Hopefully I'm proven wrong about that, but it's not a light matter.
Jesus, insofar as he even existed, had no time for you unless you were Jewish. In fact, Jesus saw you as his enemies whom he was to rule over.
This is completely false.
Your entire position is based on ignorance.
This can be discussed, but it isn't brief.
Lol I see you don't have a drop of sincerity in any of your "questions"