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1 | What are these verses telling us? | Gen 6:2 | Mr.Rhoades | 207182 | ||
Gen 6:2-4. I'm perplexed about these verses. What are these verses telling us? Were the children born possibly the Gods that the Greeks worshipped? | ||||||
2 | What are these verses telling us? | Gen 6:2 | bowler | 207187 | ||
Mr. Rhoades No offense to you at all, this is a good question. I have seen many fight over this question so I am not going to offer an opinion here as if it is my view point. I refuse to say which one I believe in as I am not here to push my views or be judged, or censured for what I believe in. I need to include verses one and five to do this. Veiw One - 1) Men still lived a long time, Lamech the father of Noah lived 595 years in chapter 5. Daughters were born to these men who lived a long time. 2) The Sons of God refers to the sons of Seth, as Sons of Seth was referred to as the godly line who called upon God in chapter 4. Or it refers to the sons of the kings, as the Sons of God, who wished to build up harems. 3) These Sons of God which ever human group they were took wives for themselves. They had to be human because angels do not procreate or have sex or have the organs to do so. 4) The Nephilim - in Hebrew means bully, giant, tyrant - whoever the fathers were the offspring of all of these marriages were big bad men. They are called "mighty men who were of old, men of renown" - it is thought that they did great physical feats, perhaps in battle as well as other unknown things. 5) These men were so bad and there were so many of them that they contributed greatly to the depravity of all the men on the earth and the wickedness of men was great - every thought of the heart was evil continually, so God decided to destroy men. View Two - 1) Men were "going forth and multiplying" and daughters were born to them. 2) The term Sons of God is Ben Elohim and appears in other places in the OT to refer to angels like in Job. In Job it is said that the angels were "presenting themselves to God" - as in they were going up to where God is in heaven to report to Him or to worship Him. 3) Three Angels appeared to Abraham and they ate bread, so it is said all three took on human form, and one of them was a theophany of Jesus. So it is possible for angels to take on human form. 4) Jude 1:6, 7 the angels did not keep their proper domain and abandoned their proper abode - they both left heaven and transformed to human form. And because of what they did in that state they are kept in eternal bonds until judgment day. 5) Just as Sodom and Gomorrah indulged in gross immorality and "went after strange flesh", these rebellious angels did the same exact thing according to Jude - they procreated with the wrong species or kind. Where the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah went men after men as "strange flesh", so the angels went outside their proper domain and "went after strange flesh" with women. Now some Evangelicals believe these angels were "possessing" men. Some believe they were real angels in human real human form because the Bible does not say that humans were possessed, and the Bible does not specifically say angels cannot procreate if they were to take on human form. 6) It is possible that the Greek and Roman myths of the Titans have some element of truth in them as these "mighty men of old, men of renown" that got woshipped later after the Greeks and Romans heard about them as "stories" they heard but never saw. Think flood, these mighty men all perished and the whole thing was never repeated. 7) The deeds of these Nephilim, these giants were very evil and very great, they had superhuman like abilities perhaps in war and physical feats. They contributed so greatly to evil on the earht and there were so many of them that in addition to the sins of all the men which was continually evil thoughts from the heart God decided to destroy men. These are two views I personally have heard preached from various pulpits and on the Evangelical radio stations by some very popular conservative and reformed Evangelicals who believe they are practicing Sola Scriptura. I will not get into the problems each of these veiws presents. Just a worthless son. blessings abound, bowler |
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