The Missing Books of the Old Testament Are Irrelevant to Salvation

Many people are pressuring believers to get and read the missing books of the Bible, such as the book of Enoch, Jasher, Maccabees and some others as if bible readers need to restart their studies or else they will miss the point of God. These missing books are irrelevant today because the New Testament started a new covenant based on Grace, not Law or any other prophesies.

Of course, these books are relevant to Bible historians to understand past messages of God as in chronicles of genealogy, Jewish doctrine, and some missing pieces to Old Testament puzzles, but as far as salvation today, these books add nothing to what is needed for believers of Christ.

Believers are encouraged to ignore such distractions saying they should “neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.” 1 Timothy 1:4. People enact conspiracies and raise questions as to why the books were removed as if someone is trying to hide the truth from the world. But this is not so.

If God wanted these books in print along with the others, there is nothing that could have stopped this from happening. Man cannot halt or change God’s plan. Jesus Himself admonished the people after he was asked which is the greatest commandment in the law. 

“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” St. Matthew 22:37-40.

Meaning, there is nothing more important to what He was teaching at the time than loving the Lord God, and your neighbors. This is the true message of the gospel of Christ. The law and the Old Testament is summed up in those two commandments.

Romans 3:21 says, “But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;” Therefore, there is nothing that can be added to the plan of salvation that needs to be taught in the gospel today.

There is nothing wrong with increasing knowledge from the missing books, but this knowledge has no bearing on the faith of a believer. Many times, the Apostles would sum up the Old Testament as a lead into the gospel of Christ such as Peter did in Acts chapter 2 before his call to repentance, and many times throughout the epistles by Paul and the others.

They taught that the Old Testament and the prophets were all leading us to repentance and to the faith needed for salvation. It was an elementary lesson to bring us to faith. “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.” Galatians 3:24.

Do not allow overzealous preachers and teachers to place burdens on your soul that force you to turn aside from what is important, the salvation of the soul, to study historical books that add nothing to your faith or the gospel of salvation.