5 Reasons Christians Are Switching to the Ethiopian Bible and Reading the Uncensored Trut

  1. The claim that there are “22 books missing from the Bible” is not historically accurate in that simple form. What actually exists are different biblical canons that developed within different branches of Christianity over many centuries. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has one of the largest biblical canons in Christianity, including books such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Ascension of Isaiah, which are not found in most Western Christian Bibles like the Protestant canon used in the KJV, NIV, or ESV.
  2. These books were not removed from a single original Bible. Instead, the biblical canon was never identical across all early Christian communities. Different regions and churches used different collections of texts, and over time, theological debates, councils, and traditions led to the formation of distinct canons. The Protestant Bible settled on 66 books during the Reformation, while Catholic and Orthodox traditions include additional books known as the Deuterocanonical books, and the Ethiopian canon includes even more.
  3. It is true that the New Testament letter of Jude references the Book of Enoch, but in ancient writing, authors often quoted or referred to widely known religious or cultural texts without those texts being considered part of Scripture in every tradition. A quotation alone was not automatically understood as a command to include the source text in the biblical canon.
  4. The idea that Ethiopia preserved an untouched or “uncensored” original Bible is also not correct. Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian civilizations, adopting Christianity in the fourth century, and it has preserved very ancient traditions and texts. However, its biblical canon also developed historically and was shaped by the same kinds of religious and institutional decisions that influenced other Christian traditions. Ethiopia was never fully colonized in the same way as many other African nations, but it was briefly occupied by Italy between 1936 and 1941, so the claim of never being colonized is also not entirely accurate.
  5. In reality, there is no single version of the Bible that was later altered or reduced from a universal original. Instead, what exists today are multiple long-standing Christian traditions, each with its own canon that reflects its historical development, theology, and cultural context. The differences between them are the result of history and tradition rather than a hidden removal of books from a once unified Bible.