The Space Left by Genesis

Genesis is much less detailed than Enoch about the heavenly actors and their fate. That difference leaves some questions open. It does not establish another descent after the Flood.

A second group of rebels could be imagined to explain later heroic unions. The trouble is that neither the brevity of Genesis nor the mention of afterward identifies such a group. The proposal would be an additional history, not the recovery of a sentence already present.

The same principle applies to the New Testament passages about rebellious angels. Their testimony should be read for what it contributes, without turning their silence on another episode into evidence that the episode happened.

The comparison can proceed while the timeline remains unresolved. It becomes less reliable when every gap is filled by whichever event the larger theory needs. A question preserved in the sources is more useful than an answer manufactured to keep the reconstruction moving.