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Well I'm not gonna argue. I am COMPLETELY persuaded by Scripture that fallen angels mated with human women to produce a hybrid race called the nephillim. I will simply present my case and you can believe whatever you'd like.
The idea that "sons of God" are human believers is beyond preposterous. You know what happens when a believer mates with an unbeliever? It's not as crazy as you might think. They have sex and it produces........ ANOTHER human being!! Not mighty men, with super human attributes. Or Giants. Also, the implication is that these"human" believer sons of God mated with the unbelieving women because they were beautiful. Are we to believe the human believing "daughters of God" were ugly, and that is why they went after unbelieving women?
The ONLY other place in Scripture where the Hebrew term used in Genesis 6 "sons of God" is in Job. Both places in Job it's usage is clearly represented to be ANGELS. Unless you think Adam's believing offspring were there with God, jumping for joy when the world was created. That should be the ball game right there. Shouldn't have to say a single thing else. But of course there is more evidence.
NOTICE that the Lord's brother doesn't say "sons of God" but leaves no doubt that it was FALLEN ANGELS that committed SEXUAL sin, and THAT is the reason they are being held in prison for judgement. This passage leaves ZERO doubt. Jude definitively ties the SEXUAL sin the ANGELS committed (going after strange flesh) to the SEXUAL sin of Sodom & Gomorrah.
Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not keep their [c]proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a SIMILAR manner to these, having given themselves over to SEXUAL immorality and gone after STRANGE FLESH, are set forth as an example, suffering the [d]vengeance of eternal fire.
The word "abode" or habitation, is the Greek word OIKHTHRION. It is used only one other time in Scripture:
2 Corinthians 5 New King James Version (NKJV)
Assurance of the Resurrection
5 For we know that if our earthly [a]house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our [b]HABITATION which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
So while it's absolutely true the Angels IN HEAVEN, in their HEAVENLY HABITATION, do not have sex or procreate, there is nothing in Scripture that says they are unable to do this on Earth. In fact, THIS IS THE VERY CRIME FOR WHICH THEY WILL BE CAST INTO HELL FOR!!!
They appear in human form all over Scripture, like at Sodom where humans wanted to have sex with them!
I have never figured out why people are so offended by what Scripture clearly says about this subject. I can only assume that as children we have this dreamy idea of what Angels are and we don't like that messed with.
The idea that "sons of God" are human believers is beyond preposterous. You know what happens when a believer mates with an unbeliever? It's not as crazy as you might think. They have sex and it produces........ ANOTHER human being!! Not mighty men, with super human attributes. Or Giants. Also, the implication is that these"human" believer sons of God mated with the unbelieving women because they were beautiful. Are we to believe the human believing "daughters of God" were ugly, and that is why they went after unbelieving women?
The ONLY other place in Scripture where the Hebrew term used in Genesis 6 "sons of God" is in Job. Both places in Job it's usage is clearly represented to be ANGELS. Unless you think Adam's believing offspring were there with God, jumping for joy when the world was created. That should be the ball game right there. Shouldn't have to say a single thing else. But of course there is more evidence.
NOTICE that the Lord's brother doesn't say "sons of God" but leaves no doubt that it was FALLEN ANGELS that committed SEXUAL sin, and THAT is the reason they are being held in prison for judgement. This passage leaves ZERO doubt. Jude definitively ties the SEXUAL sin the ANGELS committed (going after strange flesh) to the SEXUAL sin of Sodom & Gomorrah.
Jude 1:6 And the angels who did not keep their [c]proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a SIMILAR manner to these, having given themselves over to SEXUAL immorality and gone after STRANGE FLESH, are set forth as an example, suffering the [d]vengeance of eternal fire.
The word "abode" or habitation, is the Greek word OIKHTHRION. It is used only one other time in Scripture:
2 Corinthians 5 New King James Version (NKJV)
Assurance of the Resurrection
5 For we know that if our earthly [a]house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our [b]HABITATION which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
So while it's absolutely true the Angels IN HEAVEN, in their HEAVENLY HABITATION, do not have sex or procreate, there is nothing in Scripture that says they are unable to do this on Earth. In fact, THIS IS THE VERY CRIME FOR WHICH THEY WILL BE CAST INTO HELL FOR!!!
They appear in human form all over Scripture, like at Sodom where humans wanted to have sex with them!
I have never figured out why people are so offended by what Scripture clearly says about this subject. I can only assume that as children we have this dreamy idea of what Angels are and we don't like that messed with.
2 Peter 2:4
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment
The whole concept of the fallen angels mating with human women, was born out of the third century by a deluded theologian.
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