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'Do you believe in a sexual fall? ...The Biblical ‘Fall’ is an allegorical tale, but a sexual interpretation opens the door for Sun Myung Moon to have lots of sex.'

Unfortunately, people who don’t regard the book of Genesis as factual find it difficult to accept divine principle. Many of these modern thinkers believe the scriptures to be nothing more than ancient fables which they reject in favor of the updated fables from today's modern science.

Satan's sexual relationship with Eve and the resulting lineage are well attested:

Jewish Encyc.1904-Vol.9.p.70--"The chief functions of Satan are, as already noted, those of temptation, accusation, and punishment. He was an active agent in the fall of man (Pirke R.El.Xii.) and was the father of Cain."

Jewish Encyc.1904-Vol.5,p.275-"Eve became pregnant, and bore Cain and Abel on the very day of (her creation and) expulsion from Eden (Gen.R.xii) Cain's real father was not Adam, but one of the demons..."

Yebamoth 103b--Rabbi Johanan stated: "When the serpent copulated with Eve, he infused her with lust."

Haye Sarah 126a --Another Rabbi states: "Thus I have learnt, that when the serpent had intercourse with Eve he injected defilement into her."

Haye Sarah 126b--Another stated: "You rightly said that when the serpent had carnal intercourse with Eve he injected into her defilement."

Yevamot 103b--"According to the midrash, the snake seduced her to commit adultery with him. Thus a thrice repeated saying of Rabbi Yohanan has it that 'at the time that the snake had intercourse with Eve, he introduced filth into her..."

Ahare Moth 76b--One Rabbinic source stated: "Eve bore Cain from the filth of the serpent, and therefore from him were descended all the wicked generations, and from his side is the abode of spirits and demons."

Bereshith 36b--"For two beings had intercourse with Eve, and she conceived both and bore two children. Each followed one of the male parents, to this side and one to the other, and similarly their characters."

Shabbath 146a--"For when the serpent came upon Eve he injected lust into her."

Yevamot 103b--"...at the time that the snake had intercourse with Eve, he introduced filth into her.

Zohar I, 28b--"For they are the children of the ancient serpent which seduced Eve..."

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan--"Adam knew about his wife Eve that she had conceived by Sammael the angel of the Lord, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain."

Pirqei de Rabbi Eliezer: "The serpent came into her and she became pregnant with Cain, as it says, "And the man knew his wife Eve."What did he know" That she was already pregnant.(by Satan.)

Targum of Jonathan--"And Adam was aware that Eve his wife had conceived from Sammael the angel, and she became pregnant and bare Cain, and he was like those on high, not like those below; and she said, 'I have acquired a man, the angel of the Lord."

Jerusalem Targum--"And Adam knew his wife, who had desired the Angel; and she conceived, and bare Cain; and she said, I have acquired a man, the Angel of the Lord. And she added to bear from her husband Adam his twin, even Abel."

The Encycl.Britannica Vol.VIII-1910.p.122 (Jewish Interpretations of Scripture) "The birth of Cain is ascribed to a union of Satan with Eve."

Jewish Encycl.1905.Vol.XI p.69--"Satan was the seducer and paramour of Eve."

Legends of the Bible-Louis Ginsberg,p.54-"Satan, in the guise of the serpent, approached her and the fruit of their union was Cain, the ancestor of all impious generations that were rebellious toward God, and rose up against Him. Cain's descent from Satan, who is the angel Sammael, was revealed in his seraphic appearance. At his birth, the exclamation was wrung from Eve, 'I have gotten a man, through an angel of the Lord." Babylonian Talmud http://come-and-hear.com/shabbath/shabbath_146.html

Satan's fall is the first instance documented in the Bible of an angel engaging in illicit sex, but it is not the only one. There is another incident recorded in Genesis 6 which occurred soon after Satan's fall:

'When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. ...The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.' (Genesis 6:1-4 ESV)

Regarding this passage: 'It has been the opinion of the majority of Rabbis that this event had actually occurred, and that the sons of God were indeed angels. (Just as it did in Job 38:7*, the term 'sons of God' in Genesis 6:2, 4 refers to the angels.) Ancient rabbinical sources, and the Septuagint translators in the 3rd century before Christ all upheld this view. Josephus believed them to be angels….' http://www.letusreason.org/Doct11.htm

Why did eating the fruit give Satan a basis to claim man?

According to divine principle, because God is the creator of all life, all mankind naturally belongs to Him as children of his lineage. However, Satan claims ownership of Eve and her descendants based on his status as Eve's first husband. According to Jewish Law, which is angelic law**, the woman and her descendants belong to the first man with whom she has intercourse*** even if, as is the view of the Principle, the children were not the substantial products of his seed (whereas many rabbis hold the view that Cain was the substantial product of Satan's seed). This is based on the principle of eternal ideal marriage between one man and one woman. Satan misused this principle for his own selfish purposes but in order to uphold His Principle and Ideal, God recognizes Satan's claim since it has a basis in Principle. Therefore, while man's lineage from God is contested by Satan, mankind remains in the 'midway position' caught between two owners, one the rightful Owner, the other a usurper. It is this condition which the Messiah comes to resolve. Through God's Providence, the Messiah, Jesus, was the first person since the Fall to be born free from the condition of Satan's claim to ownership.

'"... for the ruler of this world (Satan -ed.) is coming. He has no claim on me,'" (John 14:30 ESV)

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* ' "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" ' (Job 38:4-7 ESV)

The Hebrew word for sons of God is Bene elohim. This term for angels occurs four times in the Old Testament in the Septuagint version (the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures) it's meaning is always used as angels of God, never of man. Most scholars believe that Genesis 6:1-4 describes a union between fallen angels who cohabitated with human females. This unnatural occurrence of combining two different species resulted in a offspring of what is called 'giants' in the King James and NKJ version and Nephilim in the New American Standard, and the English translation of the Jewish Masoretic text. For detailed proof that these 'sons of God' were angels and not men, see the article 'Genesis 6 - Who Were the Sons of God?' http://www.letusreason.org/Doct11.htm

**Let’s remember that the Law came from the angels: '... in the Book of Colossians...Paul’s principal theme of the Mystery of Christ is dependent upon knowledge that angels ... were responsible for issuing the Law to Moses. ...Christ released all Christians from the bondage required by this angelic Law. Paul spoke of it as, 'philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements [the real Greek meaning] of the world, and not after Christ.' (Colossians 2:8)

To the apostle Paul, these spiritual "elements" were the "principalities and powers” who went by the generic name, angels. ...These ritualistic regulations and dogmas (King James: “ordinances”) given to Moses by the principalities and powers, were denominated by Paul as “the religion of angels” (Colossians 2:18). And that is exactly what Paul accounted the ritualistic system of festivals, new moons and sabbaths to be (along with circumcision, animal sacrifices, Temple worship, etc.). Paul considered that requirement of religious beliefs of “the religion of angels” had nothing to do with the teachings of Christianity found in Christ.' http://askelm.com/essentials/ess003a.htm

***According to the Jewish Law a women belongs to the first man with whom she has intercourse. From the Jewish Women's Archive:

'The act of kiddushin, (betrothal), designates the woman for her husband and makes her forbidden to all other men. Halakhah (the legal corpus of Jewish laws and observances as prescribed in the Torah …) establishes that kiddushin must be carried out “according to the laws of Moses and Israel,” and three modes were established for kiddushin: In the words of the Mishnah: “A woman is acquired in three ways … through money, through a document and through sexual relations (bi’ah)”…

“…the legal consequence of the act of kiddushin is that the woman becomes forbidden to all other men, and is designated for the man who betrothed her. The woman cannot be freed from this man, except through divorce or through his death…The prohibition against the woman having sexual relations with another man is a strict prohibition derived from the Torah: the woman is deemed an adulteress and her children by this man are deemed mamzerim (bastards)…” http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/marriage

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'The ancient books of 1Enoch and Jubilees also record the angelic rebellion of the 'sons of God' in detail. As Hershel Shanks reveals in his book on the Dead Sea Scrolls, these books were held in high esteem at the time the New Testament was written:

Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls the apocryphal book of Enoch (more precisely, I Enoch) was known only in an Ethiopic translation. Now as many as twenty fragmentary copies of the Aramaic original have been found at Qumran, which suggests that Enoch and perhaps other books now considered apocryphal were regarded as authoritative Scripture at least by some groups. Allusions to Enoch occur at least fourteen times in the New Testament; the New Testament Letter of Jude quotes from Enoch as having the authority of inspired Scripture (Jude 14-15). In some copies of the Ethiopic Bible Enoch is included in the canon. Jubilees, the so-called Rewritten Bible, was apparently considered authoritative at Qumran: At least fifteen copies of this book have been identified, an immediate indication of the importance the Qumran sectarians attached to it. To this day, it is considered canonical by the Abyssinian Church in Ethiopia. (pp. 160-161, The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls)

From 1 Enoch, we learn more about the sin of the Watchers (Dan. 4:17), angels charged with watching over mankind:

ENOCH 6:1 'And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: "Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children."' (The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, R.H. Charles)

Jubilees also elaborates on the sin of these angels:

JUBILEES 5:1 'And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants. . . . ' (The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, R.H. Charles)

After the angels sinned by marrying human women, they bore them gigantic hybrid children. The Bible calls these offspring nephilim, the "mighty men of old, warriors of renown" (Gen. 6:4). When they appear again later in the Scriptures, they are called by a variety of names, including Rephaim, Zumim, Emim and Horites (Gen. 14:5), Anakim (Deu. 2:11), Zamzummim (Deu. 2:20), and Avim (Deu. 2:23).

1 Enoch and Jubilees both speak of these crossbred beings:

ENOCH 7:1 'And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them . . . And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.' (The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, R.H. Charles)

JUBILEES 5:2 '. . . And lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walks on the earth - all of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men (was) thus evil continually. . . .' (The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, R.H. Charles)

Both these ancient books, recorded long before the New Testament, speak of two primary identifying signs of the pre-Flood age: (1) the illicit marriage of the angels with humans, and (2) the voracious eating and drinking by their hybrid offspring, the nephilim. It's very interesting that these two signs mirror those spoken of by Jesus when he described the situation which would exist on the earth before his second coming:

MATTHEW 24:37 '"But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be."' (NKJV)

God was very angry at the rebellion of the Watchers, and decreed that these wayward angels would be locked up underneath the earth in a prison for spirits until the day of judgment. Jubilees and 1 Enoch both speak of this punishment:

JUBILEES 5:6 'And against the angels whom He had sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly wroth, and He gave commandment to root them out of all their dominion, and He bade us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold they are bound in the midst of them, and are (kept) separate.' (The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, R.H. Charles)

ENOCH 10:11 '. . . And the Lord said unto Michael: "Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves with them in all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever". . . .' (The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, R.H. Charles)

1 Enoch and Jubilees agree with the Scriptures which show that a portion of the fallen angels are currently restrained in a spiritual prison called "the Abyss" (Luke 8:31):

JUDE 6 'And the angels who did not keep their own position, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great Day.' (NRSV)

II PETER 2:4 'For indeed God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down in chains of darkness into the low regions and delivered them to be kept for the judgment of torment.' (Magiera NT Peshitta translation)

I PETER 3:19 '. . . He went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.' (NKJV)

While there are clearly some fallen angels who can move around freely, the Bible teaches that the Watchers who lusted after human women are currently locked up in "chains of darkness".'

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