Coptic Appreciation Thread

Pretty close. Although we're obviously not Palamites (nor scholastics as Roman Catholics are).

I know OP, I can confirm he also got banned for believing 1 Enoch is Scripture as the Ethiopian Church does. How did you get unbanned, brother?
I am a Roman Catholic myself, and have nothing but love for the Coptic/Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
Let us stop slandering our brothers so terribly.

From my understanding, the reasons for the rejection of 1 Enoch were not due to the book itself having heresy or occultism, but due to forgeries. This would not be the only instance of this happening in the Churches, the Acts of John, the Clementine Homilies, the writings of Origen quite possibly (read St. Pamphilus' Apology for Origen) and most labelled pseudepigrapha in general.

I will explain.

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* the Acts of John, writings of Origen possibly and the Clementine Homilies etc. were all interpolated upon by heretics, specifically Gnostics but were possibly not forgeries entirely from their inception.

* I will also state that despite the fact I believe Church Fathers confused 1 Enoch with other heretical works, within the context they were in and what they were dealing with, I fully understand and support the decision of 1 Enoch not being in the Western and Eastern canons. I think that, the condemnation of Origen's writings and the condemnation of Evagrius Ponticus' writings were fully justified and was best in order to prevent heresy from entering the Churches.

This makes you more based than Easterns in my book tbh.