When you remove Jude's comparison of the fallen angels to the same sin "in like manner" that the men of Sodom were trying to do with the angelic visitors, then yes, you have watered down Jude's message.
Like I said before: I did not remove it. At one point I quoted the entire book of Jude. I got his message loud and clear. He was comparing the angelic activity of leaving their God appointed positions and what took place in Sodom to what the false teachers that were doing to the moral teachings of Christianity. It was something in particular that moved Jude to write what he did.
What is the assigned position of humanity regarding marriage and sexuality? Not men with men and women with women.
There is no indication in Gen 19 that the men of Sodom knew the strangers were angels. And even if you are right and they did know, and therefore they were wanting to commit the same sin as the fallen angels committed (according to you) you do not have the same sin at all. You do not have angels wanting to copulate with men, you would have men wanting to copulate with angels.
So the point of Jude making this comparison is not to remind us that we shouldn't have sexual relations with angels; and it is not of necessity saying that angels did have sexual relations with human women. In fact it is more likely that it refers to sexual immorality, period, and suggests that this was a characteristic of the particular teaching Jude was dealing with. The comparison was for the purpose of identifying these type of men (teachers) for what they were.
4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
6 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day— 7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire,[
d] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
8 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones
For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs[
e] at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.
14 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
And the conclusion:
A Call to Persevere
17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They[
f] said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.” 19 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 22 And have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment[
g] stained by the flesh.
Put the whole thing together and don't get sidetracked by focusing on the wrong thing. "Enoch", "angels", "proper place", and making those the central teaching of Jude, through speculation and confirmation bias. Or alternately you can skim or fail to read altogether in order to ascertain why I quoted what I did in connection to what I said. And stay right where you are in your assertions you deem fact.
.... ehhhh?
