Genesis 6
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also
is flesh: yet
his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And GOD saw that the wickedness
of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Numbers 13
33
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
The
sons of God in
Genesis 6:2,
4 were men from
the godly families of the righteous descending from Seth to Noah. Their sin was to break their covenant with God and lustfully marry
into the wicked families on earth descending from Cain and others. The offspring were famous men in the antediluvian world, and God drowned the earth
for this sin and the wickedness of man.
Speculators, rejecting even elementary hermeneutics,
assume the sons of God to be angels, which they say came to earth for sexual liaisons with women, resulting in a mongrel super race, which they call the
Nephilim. Though God destroyed all living creatures with the Flood in Noah’s day, the consistent speculators find the
Nephilim again in Canaan from
Numbers 13:33.
Nephilim is a transliterated Hebrew word, occurring in
corrupt Bible versions in two places, and subsequently used by some as a name for the mongrel creatures resulting from angels copulating with women according
to a false and foolish interpretation of
Genesis 6:1-4 and
Numbers 13:33.
Genesis 6:4 (RV, ASV, RSV, NASV, NIV, NSRV, ESV, WEB, HSCB, GW, NCV, NIRV).
Numbers 13:33 (RV, ASV, RSV, NASV, NIV, NSRV, ESV, WEB, HSCB, GW, NCV, NIRV, BBE, CEB, The Message, Young’s).
The King James Version, God’s inspired and authoritative scriptures in English, which may be trusted and argued at the word level, as it was designed and used, has
giants in both places.
Transliteration creates new words with no established meaning in the receiving language, and in this case, having little or confused meaning in the originating language. This unnecessary transliteration created the mysterious term
Nephilim, encouraging imaginations to run wild about angels having sex with women resulting in a new race. A certain meaning of
Nephilim cannot be determined,
but since it does not occur in God’s Bible anyway, it is of no consequence to saints.
The wild idea of angels having sexual intercourse with human women to generate
science fiction supermen should be ignored, if it were not for some publishing speculations based on this bizarre interpretation. Having turned their ears away from sound doctrine and truth for fables, carnal Christians with itching ears have found teachers that will scratch their lusts with these farfetched tales of a super race (
II Tim 4:3-4). Rather than learn Christ, truth, and godliness, they want to be entertained with ridiculous propositions based on even more ridiculous interpretational methods.
The texts above do not say
or imply anything about angels, and
the rest of scripture is totally silent about such an incredible heaven-earth, interracial sexual event and its result. It is the logical fallacy of
begging the question or
circular reasoning to assume that angels are intended by a few uses of “sons of God” for angels in
Job 1:6;
2:1; and
38:7. There is no reason to connect these passages beyond the mere sound of their words, which is a presumptive mistake
violating even elementary hermeneutics for rightly dividing scripture (
Neh 8:8;
II Tim 2:15).
Rather than leap into the black abyss of angel-human mongrels running around in dark forests or leading international conspiracies, let sane readers weigh
the evidence for a much simpler and Biblical explanation of the text. The scriptures themselves will prove that God in this passage …
identified the sin of His adopted children (Seth’s descendants) marrying the reprobate children of the world (Cain’s and others’ descendants), thus bringing the Flood on the whole world, except for the family of Noah, which obtained mercy for his faithful obedience.
1. The sin was by
men of flesh, not by angels, for God in context and in consequence said He would not always strive with fleshly man (
Gen 6:3). The sin was taking daughters for marriage – not a sin of giving daughters in marriage. This must be human males taking human females, for the sin was by fleshly men, not angels, and the sin was taking the wives.
2. The sin was by
men of flesh, not by angels, for God’s consequential judgment
came on humanity and other breathing creatures in 120 years, when He drowned
the human race by Noah’s Flood (
Gen 6:3). Nothing happened to any angels 120 years later. Angelic destruction and punishment were thousands of years away,
as they confessed to the Lord Christ on earth.
3. The
also in verse 6:3 compares two things that are flesh. Since God is not flesh, He is not compared. Since angels are not flesh
(and not mentioned here),
they are not compared. Are there comparable fleshly things in context? Sons of God and daughters of men! The sons of God, who chose and took wives from the daughters of men, were
also flesh. Though named
after God religiously, they still had bodies and lusts of flesh like the daughters of men.
4. The Flood was provoked by
men of the earth, not by angels, for God saw the wickedness of man and the evil imaginations of his heart (
Gen 6:5-7). He did not see the wickedness of angels. If the angels were guilty of corrupting humanity, as would be the case if the wicked sexual perpetrators were angels,
they would be mentioned. They are not mentioned. If the angels were guilty of this horrible sexual transgression,
why did God punish humanity for it?
5. There is no mention in
Genesis 6:1-4 of angels or anywhere else in scripture regarding such an incredible event as angel-human marriages, sexual intercourse, conception, reproduction, mongrel birth, mongrel nursing, etc.
The Bible is a closed system of truth, and honest men never argue for an incredible thing like angel-human mongrels when there is not a mote of Biblical evidence for anything even resembling such a wild, Greek mythology fantasy. The burden of proof is upon them, for the doctrine they construct is entirely based on Job alone.
There are about forty more evidences that could be cover.
..................who was with God in the beginning.
