"Reuben Hick" <ReubenHick@hotmail.com>
Re: On Genesis 6

"vince garcia" <vggarciaxx@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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phinnaeus wrote:

vince garcia wrote:

No one believed that "Godly line of Seth" crap until long after the
Bible was written, and one misled guy invented the notion, admitting
that if he was wrong, then yes, it did refer to angels, because he
was
ashamed of what his Bible taught.

????

Where did you get that little tidbit of "history"?

Uh, from long years of study on the subject since it's of particular
interest to me?

So who were the Nephilim ?

Hello,

Apparently they were a hybrid resulting from the mating of disobedient
angels with human females. Notice the Scriptural reasoning to follow.

First Ge 6:4 reads,

"The Neph'i·lim proved to be in the earth in those days, and also
after that, when the sons of the [true] God continued to have
relations with the daughters of men and they bore sons to them, they
were the mighty ones who were of old, the men of fame." (NWT)

To help answer what the Nephilim were, it helps to identify who the
"sons of the [true] God" were, mentioned in the scripture above.

Ge 6:1-3 tells of those "sons of the [true] God" mating with women.
Then in verse 4 it mentions the Nephilim, then after that verse it
goes on to say that those "sons of the [true] God" continued to mate
with women. So who were those "sons of the [true] God"?

They were not just human males, since the "sons of the [true] God"
offspring were "mighty ones" and "men of fame", thus somewhat
different than a normal offspring born from a man and a woman. Also,
why mention their marriage to the daughters of men as something
special? Marriage and childbearing had been taking place for more than
1,500 years. The same expression, "sons of the [true] God", also
occurs at Job 1:6 and 38:7, and it refers to angels. The apostle Peter
adds some more information at 1 Pe 3:19,20,

"In this [state] also he went his way and preached to the spirits in
prison, 20 who had once been disobedient when the patience of God was
waiting in Noah's days, while the ark was being constructed, in which
a few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the
water." (NWT)

So Peter refers to "spirits" (angels) who were disobedient during
Noah's time.

Also, Jude adds this at Jude 6,

"And the angels that did not keep their original position but forsook
their own proper dwelling place he has reserved with eternal bonds
under dense darkness for the judgment of the great day." (NWT)

So to put in all together, apparently those "sons of the [true] God"
were rebellious angels who came down from Heaven ("their original
position") and had relations with human females. This was not a
natural thing to do since God did not create humans and angels to
mate. Thus it was a perverse thing they were doing. The Nephilim would
have been the hybrid offspring of such a mating. They would have been
superhuman beings having angelic fathers and human mothers. Thus they
could bully any humans they wanted, being superior to them. (the
Hebrew word "Nephilim" literally means "fellers," i.e., persons who
caused others to fall.)

I hope this has helped you.

Sincerely, James

So to put in all together, apparently those "sons of the [true] God"
were rebellious angels who came down from Heaven ("their original
position") and had relations with human females. This was not a
natural thing to do since God did not create humans and angels to
mate. Thus it was a perverse thing they were doing. The Nephilim would
have been the hybrid offspring of such a mating. They would have been
superhuman beings having angelic fathers and human mothers. Thus they
could bully any humans they wanted, being superior to them. (the
Hebrew word "Nephilim" literally means "fellers," i.e., persons who
caused others to fall.)

I hope this has helped you.

Sincerely, James