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1 | Genesis angels creating giants? | Gen 6:2 | nasus | 239757 | ||
My room mate says that in genesis it is written that angels had sex with men and created giants. I know this is a strange question, but she keeps telling me of strange stories that I have never heard about in my Christian training. Could this be because her bible is not the king James version? | ||||||
2 | Genesis angels creating giants? | Gen 6:2 | Jalek | 239758 | ||
Greetings, It's a misinterpretation of Genesis 6:1-4. The phrase "Sons of God" is interpreted by some to mean "Angels". However, the context of the book of Genesis doesn't support it. What the context does support is that the Godly line of Seth and the Ungodly line of Cain intermarried. As for the giants, that is a misreading of verse 4. The verse reads that the Giants or Nephilim "were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the Sons of God came in to the Daughters of Men,". The indication being that the Giants existed before the two groups came together. Therefore, the giants cannot be the offspring of the Sons and the Daughter. It is my personal belief that the Giants are mentioned as a time reference, as if to speak of sports history and say that "The Rams football team was still in California". Anyone familiar with the giants, or the football team in the example given, would know when the event took place. Jalek |
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3 | Genesis angels creating giants? | Gen 6:2 | nasus | 239762 | ||
Thank you Jalek. It is good to know that there are people like you who take time to answer questions. | ||||||
4 | Genesis angels creating giants? | Gen 6:2 | Jalek | 239765 | ||
Greetings, You're welcome, and thank you for the compliment. I have a little more time to elaborate on what I said before. One thing I do want to urge caution about is that some translations do have "Angels" or "Spiritual beings" or "heavenly spirits" in the passage instead of "Sons of God". This is because they follow the false interpretation instead of the literal text. This is common with dynamic translations such as Contemporary English version, the New Living Translation, and in paraphrases such as the Good News Bible and the Living Bible. As I said before, this is a false interpretation, and it's why I don't put much faith in Dynamic Translations and Paraphrases. If you look at the chapters leading up to and following this passage, you have Mankind growing and getting progressively worse. In chapters four and five, you have the genealogies of Cain and Seth. You'll notice upon careful examination that there are names in both lists, such as Enoch and a few others. This leads many, such as myself, to conclude that the two lines intermarried, and that Genesis 6:1-4 is describing why and when. Also, the context is all about Mankind and specifically God's reaction and interaction with Mankind. Putting angels or spirit beings into this passage disrupts the flow of the context in these early chapters of Genesis. As far as the belief that Angels created giants, that is nothing but pure ignorance and lack of observation. As I pointed out before, the text clearly indicates that the Nephilim were already in existence when the Sons and the Daughters came together. It is impossible for the Giants to be their offspring. The only conclusion that makes sense is that the Giants comment is to establish a timeframe for the intended audience. Now, as to specifically what or who the giants were, we can only guess. I give serious doubt that they were the same giants as mentioned in Numbers 13 due to the flood killing all of mankind except for Noah's family, who aren't called Nephilim. That indicates that the term is descriptive instead of a proper noun. There are too many possibilities as to the identity of the Giants to speculate accurately. Jalek |
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