Subject: The Sons of God in Genesis 6:1-4 |
Bible Note: Dear Jesusman, Thanks for the response and for repeating yourself. I agree God is not the author of confusion nor does His word ever conflict with itself, and this is why I do my best to get out of the way and allow Scripture to interpret Scripture. When ever I forget to do this I try to remember the following verse, John 4:23-24 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." (from New International Version) With the above verse in mind at all times, I was reading what you wrote and a particular sentence stood out to me, You said,"Also, all that Peter says is that the angels left their natural domain. He says nothing that even hints to idea that angels had relations with humans.", on the contrary, 2 Cor 5:2 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: KJV In the above verse it says,"in this we groan" in reference to the mortal flesh body and, "our house which is from heaven" refers to our immortal spiritual body. The word,"house", in the Greek is oiketerion. The Greek word "oiketerion" is only used twice in the New Testament, the other is in the following verse, Jude 6 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. KJV The above verse says that the angels "left their own habitation". The Greek word for "habitation" is "oiketerion". In the Strongs the Greek number is 3613 and these are the only two times it is used and in both instances oiketerion is preceeded with a definite article. In the simplicity which is in Christ, this means that the angels left their spiritual existence to take on an existence in the flesh and I would conclude that once in the form of the flesh proceeded to takes wives of the daughters of men and procreate, giving birth to the nephilim, giants, mighty men of old, men of renown. We could ask ourselves how does a spirit take on the form of a man, but think about the man filled with a legion when this question arises, yes the Bible gives plenty example of spirits entering into the flesh. I hope this helps with your understanding of why I believe that the sons of God in Gen 6 are indeed fallen angels. Bless you, Love Fountain |