Why Not Enoch? Rediscovering a Lost Voice in the Biblical Story What if one of the most fascinating — and forgotten — voices of biblical history is still speaking?The Last WireBrian Godawa didn’t just write a novel when he launched Noah Primeval in 2011. He reopened a door many Christians didn’t even know had been closed. Godawa, a bestselling Christian novelist and veteran Hollywood screenwriter, is also a serious student of biblical theology, ancient Near Eastern history, and Second Temple Judaism. His nonfiction works—When Giants Were Upon the Earth, God Against the gods, The Spiritual World of Genesis 1–11, and others—have made him one of the most influential popular interpreters of the Bible’s supernatural worldview.
When Godawa wrapped his fiction in that ancient cosmology, he wasn’t dabbling. He was reintroducing believers to a worldview our spiritual ancestors once took for granted—a worldview shaped in no small part by the Book of Enoch. Suddenly, readers of Jude 1:14–15, 2 Peter 2:4, and Genesis 6:1–4 could see the world the apostles inhabited. Godawa didn’t create this world; he reminded us it exists.
And that brings us to a question conservatives shouldn’t avoid: if Enoch shaped the worldview of the apostles,
why do we treat it as irrelevant?Continue reading at The Last Wire.
