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Originally Posted by mizpeh
Was sexual relations with women the intent behind Peter and Enoch mentioning the angels leaving their first estate and was this their sin that prompted God to deliver them into chains of darkness?
I might not be following you on this one, Pel.
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Well, first of all... I don't know. I don't know how or even if it could happen. I don't know that it did happen literally - but from an entirely cultural standpoint it does seem that something important is going on here.
Almost every culture on the planet has some tale about "the gods" or "the sons of the gods" or some supernatural order of beings interbreeding with human women and/or men. Peleus the father of Achilles comes to mind as an example of a human male who conceived a child with a goddess; in this case Thetus. The father-god figure of Zeus was notorious for his affairs with mortal women and all of his offspring were either gods (Apollo and Aphrodite) or heroes (Heracles).
The denial of such unions is really a novelty from late antiquity and the early medieval age. Given Peter and Jude's apparent acceptance of this view, we either have to take it seriously in some fashion or reject Peter and Jude.