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One of the first accounts with the Adversary is in Gen 3 and it is as follows

 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;  but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’”  The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!  For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
A lot of believers seem to be flocking to extra-biblical literature. I've seen it crammed in peoples Torah portion studies like it has any right to be there. It doesn't. I had a discussion with someone recently that had this to say

If the source venerates and expounds on scripture i don't see the problem and Enoch especially clears up misunderstandings about Genesis 6 that causes prejudice against God when misunderstood 

Clears up misunderstandings? The dude that said this is a well meaning Facebook friend but this is a problem.  When I asked "so you're saying it adds to the text of Gen 6?" He continued

expounds on or clears up misunderstandings caused by a lack of information. There are many books referenced in the cannon of Scripture that we don't have in the cannon

That is a HUGE problem to suggest that we as believers need some outside source to authenticate the scriptures, when scriptures are the standard of authentication. Look at that passage above that I outlined from Gen 3. The addition of ONE word, not an entire book, not an entire paragraph, not an entire sentence, but one single word slipped in by the adversary was enough to doom humanity.  What is the temptation offered by these books if it isn't  "your eyes will be opened"  and it allow you to have special knowledge like God? 

 

 

Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed. O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called “knowledge”— which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith. - 1 Tim 6

 

 There are people that read extra-biblical works and they get hung up on the Nephlim and the Firmament and all sorts of issues that have more than likely zero spiritual resolution for the believer. They can rant for days about their thoughts about the Sons of God mixing with the Daughters of men, but they have difficulty loving their brothers and sisters in the Christian church. They have 10k opinions on the book of Jasher, but they can't forgive the church that burned them or love their enemies as Christ commands.

 

Take a look at this:

 

And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written,

“‘He will command his angels concerning you,

    to guard you,’

and

“‘On their hands they will bear you up,

    lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”

 And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”  And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time. - Luke 4

 

He didn't even add words that time, he just used the right information in the wrong way to make it a lie. How much more so would we allow the opportunity for deception and detraction when instead of reading what the word says in nearness with God, we hold up that which is not scripture as if it were or put it on a pedestal as if was the decoder to all things Bible. 

 

People are so ready to believe anything that they see on Youtube that they do not confirm its accuracy, as another one of my friends pointed out in response to the claim "if you study them you will find that they support scripture and you will then see why they were removed by the Catholic church and the Protestants as well" he said

 

this is a fabrication from Hyslop. The book of Enoch traces back to about 300 BC. The Hebrew Scriptures were canonized by the time of the Hasmonean line of kings, so roughly 100 BC. In fact, the Greek Septuagint was put together around 200 years before Yeshua. Yet no one in that era considered Enoch as worthy of being included as Scripture. This has nothing to do with the Catholic church. The Catholic church merely agreed with the same conclusions previously drawn by Jewish scholars, that it did not qualify as divinely inspired material.

When we start holding extrabiblical books that grant us "special knowledge" in the same light as the scriptures not only are we in danger of the warning time and time again against adding and taking away from the Word of God, but we're conducting ourselves the same as the Mormons. If the goal of the adversary is to counterfeit, then the elevation of non-biblical text is nothing short of playing with fire.