#12225 Why Isn’t the Book of Enoch in the Bible If the Disciples Referenced It? - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, we tackle one of the most intriguing questions about the Bible’s development: If the disciples and early Christians referenced the Book of Enoch, why isn’t it part of the biblical canon? We explore the Church’s criteria for canonization, Enoch’s influence, and why it ultimately didn’t make the cut.

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Questions Covered:

03:51 – Why was Enoch not considered canon if the disciples referenced it?
14:25 – Why is confession to a priest necessary?
21:17 – Who is St. Mary Salome? Was she the Blessed Mother’s sister?
25:07 – Why is the penalty of sin, death? It seems so harsh.
33:55 – Rather than having a Catholic funeral Is having a mortuary service burial, okay?
35:32 – Is there any truth to the rumor that the baptism formula was in Jesus name early on?
40:30 – What would be the implications of a person without a soul?
44:45 – Could a Catholic accept Jesus as the new Isaac and Peter as the new Abraham as an explanation of Mt. 16:18-19?
49:17 – My husband is interested in Catholicism. He asked: 1 Peter 2:25 Why is the word bishop replaced to overseer in some versions?

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0:37.3	That means Joe Heschmire, at least most Wednesdays.
0:39.9	That means Joe Heschmire.
0:41.2	So we've got Joe both hours for an Ask Me Anything.
0:44.7	Let me look at the phone lines.
0:46.0	Half full right now, talking for 20 seconds and half full.
0:50.2	8883187-884 is the number to call.
0:53.4	If you've got a question for Joe, you want to know about the Bible, you want to know about Jesus,
0:58.8	you want to know about the early church, you want to know about Peter, I want to know about St. Joseph.
1:05.4	I'm just thrown out some random ideas of what Joe might like to talk about.
1:09.9	8883187-884. Joe Heschmire,
1:13.5	apologist here at Catholic Answers, every day more famous because people are finding his
1:18.8	magnificent podcast, shameless popery, and the author of a bunch of great books. Hello, Joe Heschmire.
1:25.1	Hi, it's good to be here. I feel like I'm being really nice to you now that we're on the air.
1:29.5	I got it all out of my system before we went on the air.
1:31.4	I think it's fair to say there might have been an abrupt change when we went on the air.
1:35.4	I know.
1:36.0	I won't.
1:36.3	That's what I thought.
1:36.7	You know, I don't want to call my mom out on the air. I'm going to say kids sometimes experience that thing where their parents are scolding
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