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1970s titled Studies in Problem Texts. In this book he devoted 40 pages to discussing Genesis 6:1-4.
He wrote additional pages on this subject in his magnum opus Explore the Book, which ran to a length
of 1,760 pages. I have found that many who espouse the Sethith/Cainite interpretation cite Mr.
Baxter’s writings. A brother in Christ generously scanned and forwarded to me Mr. Baxter’s treatise
on this subject from the book Studies in Problem Texts. Although I found the arguments set for by
J. Sidlow Baxter to be faulty, and easily refuted, I deemed it a profitable experience to review his
arguments. This exercise pointed out to me the various objections individuals have to the Biblical
narrative of fallen angels cohabiting with women.

Toward the beginning of Mr. Baxter's presentation of his arguments on this subject, he writes the
following:

As for the suggestion that these evil angels somehow took human bodies to themselves and thus
became capable of sex functions, it is sheer absurdity, as anyone can see. Both on psychological and
physiological grounds it is unthinkable. We all know what an exquisitely delicate, intricate, intimate,
sensitive inter-relation and inter-reaction there exists between the human body and the human mind
or soul. This is because soul and body came into being together through the wonderful process of a
human birth, and are mysteriously united in one human personality. Thus, and only thus, is it that the
sensations of the body become experiences of the mind. This psycho-physical parallelism of the
human personality is a mystery; but it is an absolute and universal reality.

Now if angels merely took bodies and miraculously indwelt them for the time being, their doing so
could not have made them in the slightest degree able to experience the sensations of those bodies,
even if those bodies themselves could have been capable of real sensations, which is greatly doubtful;
for the angels and those temporarily occupied bodies, not having come into being together by a real
human birth as one personality, there could not be any such inter-reaction as that which exists in the
case of the human mind and body. Indeed, the bodies could not have been real bodies of flesh and
blood at all, when we come to think of it; for without being inhabited by the human spirit, the human
flesh-and-blood body dies. Bodies occupied by angels simply could not be normal human bodies of
flesh and blood.
[Source: J. Sidlow Baxter, Studies in Problem Texts]

One thing the astute reader may notice in the argument above is that it is not based upon any
Scriptural evidence. There is not a single Bible verse cited in support of the view that angels are
incapable of “real sensations” including, but not limited to, sexual reproduction. Mr. Baxter states that