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A further difficulty seems to be that the offspring were only men; no "women of reknown" are mentioned. (Was there a chromosome deficiency among the Sethites? Were ale 2 wr te ee et ee abet tte ay "In the mouths of two or three witnesses every word shall be established." In Biblical matters, it is essential to always compare Scripture with Scripture. The New Testament confirmations in Jude and 2 Peter are impossible to ignore. "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell [Tartarus], and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly" (2 Peter 2:4-5). flood of Noah. Even Peter's vocabulary is provocative. Peter uses the term Tartarus, here translated "hell." This is the only place that this Greek term appears in the Bible. Tartarus is a Greek term for "dark abode of woe;" "the pit of darkness in the unseen world." As used in Homer's Iliad, it is"... as far beneath hades as the earth is below heaven...." In the Greek wood en 1 + om ta +1017 mythology, some of the demigods, Chronos and the rebel Titans, were said to have rebelled against their father Uranus and after a prolonged contest they were defeated by Zeus and were condemned into Tartarus. The Epistle of Jude also alludes to the strange episodes when these "alien" creatures intruded themselves into the human reproductive process: "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." (Jude 6,7). The allusions to "going after strange flesh," keeping "not their first estate," having "left their own habitation," and "giving themselves over to fornication," seem to clearly fit the alien intrusions of Genesis 6. (The term for habitation, oiKriiijpLov, refers to their heavenly bodies from which they had disrobed.) alternative in interpreting Genesis 6. If the intercourse between the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" were merely marriage between Sethites and Cainites, it seems impossible to explain these passages, and the reason why some fallen angels are imprisoned and others are free to roam the heavenlies. The strange offspring also continued after the flood: "There were Nephilim in the earth in those days, and also after that...." The "Sethite" view fails to meaningfully address the prevailing conditions "also after that." It offers no insight into the presence of the 194 there only "X" chromosomes available in this line?) 6. NEW TESTAMENT CONFIRMATIONS Peter's comments even establishes the time of the fall of these angels to the days of the These allusions from the New Testament would seem to be fatal to the "Sethite" 7. POST-FLOOD IMPLICATIONS