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Genesis 2:18-25
Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for
him.” And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky,
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living
creature, that was its name. And the man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and
to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. So Yahweh
God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh at that place. And Yahweh God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from
the man, and brought her to the man. And the man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of
my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” For this cause a man shall
leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

Creation of Eve by Gustave Dore

If Yahweh had not fashioned for the man a helper, a sexual counterpart to his masculine nature,
Adam, like the angels, would have been incapable of reproduction. Had Yahweh not formed woman
for man, it might be said of Adam, as it is of the angels, that he does not marry. It would be error to
derive from such a statement that Adam was without gender identity. He was created male. So too,
we cannot conclude that angels lack sexual identity because the angels in heaven do not marry.
Yahweh did not create for the angels a sexual counterpart. The holy angels abide contentedly in the
condition Yahweh has appointed to them. The fallen ones, however, have given themselves to
wickedness. They disregard the will of God, choosing to pursue their own will and desires. Some of
the Nephilim have greatly transgressed the will of Yahweh by going after “strange flesh,” and
committing acts of fornication.

Jude 6-7
And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in
age-enduring bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. Just as Sodom and Gomorrah
and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went
after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example, in undergoing the punishment of age-enduring fire.

Yahweh considers the actions of these fallen angels to be “gross immorality.” The actions of the