Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!gatech!mcnc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: well!yvonne@well.sf.ca.us (Yvonne Lee) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Lot, his wife and their daughters( Was Re: I AM DISGUSTED!) Message-ID: Date: 2 Jun 91 05:39:11 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes: >Is ther any Jewish tradition that the angels who took human wives were >put in chains of darkness, or could that possibly be a teaching of >Christ, that the apostles passed down in their letters. (or the >apostle and the Lord's brother.) Link Hudson. There's a tradition called the Watchers that said sin entered the world when "The sons of god looked on the daughters of men, and saw that they were fair." This is mentioned briefly in Genesis, right before the flood. When you see the word "Nephilim" in scripture, it refers to the descendents of these unions. Although there is not much reference to the Watcher theory in scripture itself, it seems to be in other ancient literature, as scholars have studied it extensively. Jesus and his disciples were probably refering to this extracanonical literature when they talked about these angels being put in chains.