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I believe that the Bible we have today is the Bible GOD wants us to have. God is certainly big enough to preserve the material HE wanted us to have. But David and I have had THAT discussion before.

There has been some contention throughout the "canonization" processes throughout the centuries about what books should and shouldn't be considered "scripture". The book of Enoch is one which, although quoted by Jude, was not considered "scripture" by the Jews of Jude's time. They also did not consider the book of Jashur to be scripture, although it is mentioned in both books of Kings and Chronicles which ARE considered scripture. They also did not (and still do not) consider the OT books of the Apocrypha (Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Macabees, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch) as scripture. The Jewish rabbinical thought on these texts is that although they have some historical authenticity and speak of God, His glory and His working, there are things about them which contradict other writings and therefore they have ERRORS which make them NON-SCRIPTURE since all scripture is God-inspired and therefore ERROR-FREE. Another issue for the Rabbinical scriptures was the existence of HEBREW manuscripts which pre-date the Greek occupation of Palestine (i.e., roughly 200 BC). During this period of time, the Hebrew texts were all translated into Greek, and later still, from Greek into Latin (during the Roman occupation). There are Hebrew manuscripts for the book of Daniel (12 chaptes) but not for the "rest of Daniel" (chapters 13 and 14) which are considered Apocrypha. There are Hebrew manuscripts for Ezra and Nehemiah, but not for Tobias and Judith. The lack of Hebrew manuscripts is the primary reason they were not accepted as "scripture".

The Roman Catholic church does include the Apocrypha because they beleive they should be there. I have read the Apocrypha and, while I can definitely see why SOME have been removed from the "canon" (the Bible we currently have), I don't see why others were. But I've only read the English versions of these books, not original manuscripts.

There are no ancient Hebrew manuscripts for the book of Enoch. The oldest Hebrew manuscript for the book of Enoch was written in approx 300 BC. There are older Greek manuscipts for the book, but none which pre-date the return from Babylon.

My opinion is that if, in a given book, there are inconsistencies with other, known scriptures, the books should not be considered scripture and they should be removed from the Bible. The fact that Jude IS considered scripture by the majority of Biblical scholars, and contains this quote from the book of Enoch tells me that that particular STATEMENT is "God-inspired scripture", although the entire book of Enoch may not be.

I highly recommend an audio lesson entitled "How We Got Our Bible" by Chuck Missler which is available here: http://store.khouse.org/store/catalog/BP084.html
It is available in MP3, Audio CD, DVD or cassette. The MP3 download is $10. Not bad for reassurance about the accuracy of our scriptures.