From the book of the Secret of Genesis Prehistory
Genesis 6:1-4
In our text, the cause of the flood in the days of Noah is said to be that the sons of God married the daughters of men, and in particular, the children born by them were called Nephilim, which means cursed beings. Because of these Nephilim, the world at that time was filled with sin and evil due to rape, theft, murder, sexual promiscuity, sexual depravity, violence, disorder, and chaos.
However, the question is who the sons of God and the daughters of the world are. There have been two conflicting interpretations of them: the traditional interpretation and the non-traditional interpretation. The traditional interpretation is based on chapters 4-5, which states that the male descendants of Adam’s pious son Seth and the female descendants of the fallen Cain married each other. This is the most commonly established theory, and most theological schools/preachers teach this. Another theory is that the ‘sons of God’ were fallen angels who had sex with the daughters of men. This is an unconventional interpretation and therefore considered a bit “strange.” Objectively, both have problems.
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Traditional theory of the sons of God and daughters of men
The traditional theory of Genesis 6:1-4 regards the “sons of God” as descendants from the pious Seth to Noah, and the “daughters of men” as descendants of Cain, and there was disorderly intermarriage between the two sides. This interpretation has serious problems.
First, in chapter 6, verse 1, it says that when “men” began to multiply on the earth, “daughters” were born to them. When the Holy Spirit and the actual author of Genesis, Moses, the reporter, wrote this part, they would not have referred only to the descendants of Cain and called them “men.” Therefore, it should be assumed that daughters were born not only to the descendants of Cain but also to the descendants of Seth. The problem is that the daughters of Seth’s descendants were completely ignored. According to the traditional interpretation, Cain’s side only gave birth to daughters, and Seth’s side only gave birth to sons. Is there a rule that evil people only give birth to daughters, and good people only give birth to sons?
Also, if the premise of the traditional theory is correct, why do we say that only Seth men like Cain’s daughters? On the contrary, we ignore the fact that Cain men intermarried with Seth women. Couldn’t there have been any manly men among the Cain men who admired Seth women? Or, could it be that there were no beauties among the pious Seth women who could attract men’s attention?
It makes no sense that only Cain’s side gave birth to beauties. What if the Seth lineage was so “ugly” that it was inevitably determined to give birth to “ugly women”? Furthermore, it sounds like the Seth lineage never had any female descendants, let alone beauties, during the 10 generations that they lived for thousands of years until Noah.
The second problem is more serious. Between the sons of God and the daughters of men, a kind of special human race, the giants, the Nephilim, were born. According to the traditional theory, the question is why giants were born between the descendants of Cain and Seth, who were ordinary humans. Even today, there are tall people. They are about 2m tall. However, the giants of that time were giants who were 3m to 4m tall. Nowadays, there are no such giants. If a man from Seth’s side marries a woman from Cain’s side, it would mean that a man who believes in Jesus and a woman who does not believe in Jesus marry and a giant is born. If the traditional interpretation is correct, shouldn’t giants be born today when a man who believes in Jesus and a woman who does not believe in Jesus marry? If a woman from Seth’s side marries a man from Cain’s side, an ordinary human is born. Also, if a man and a woman from Cain’s side marry, an ordinary human is born, and if a man and a woman from Seth’s side marry, an ordinary human is born? Then, does this mean that if the male descendants of Seth and the daughters of Cain’s descendants combine, the genes will mutate?
The third question is directly connected to the second problem mentioned above. According to Genesis 6:4, the Nephilim existed not only at that time but also afterward. Here, the contemporary and later times refer to before/after the flood. If the Nephilim existed after the flood, it immediately contradicts the traditional theory. Because the descendants of Cain, that is, the sons and daughters of ‘men’, have already disappeared in the flood. How could the ‘sons of God’ meet the ‘daughters of men’ again and give birth to the Nephilim when Cain’s seed has dried up?
However, the Bible says that the descendants of the Nephilim actually existed after the flood. The Nephilim that appear in Genesis 14 existed not only during the time of Joshua but also during the time of David. This is because the ‘daughters of men’, the Cainites, as well as the Nephilim, clearly disappeared during the flood. Then, the question arises as to whether the descendants of the Nephilim, the Anakim, were the children of the “daughters of men” who barely escaped the flood and hid(?) and mated with the descendants of the “sons of God” who were on the ark. If so, it goes against the Bible. The Bible says that only Noah’s family of eight survived, so saying otherwise would be violating the Bible.
The fourth question is, if the traditional theory is true, then if the men of the Seth tribe intermarried with the women of the Cain tribe and gave birth to the Nephilim, wouldn’t this scandal have been sufficiently recorded in the genealogy of Seth in Genesis 5? Why was it not reflected at all? Because it would have left a stain on the genealogy of the pious “sons of God”? Then why were so many ungodly women and men included in Jesus’ genealogy? The Bible is honest. God is not that kind of God. It is because the traditional theory is wrong.
Considering these problems, the traditional theory is not logically or historically valid. The traditional theory does not completely resolve these four problems.
2. Non-traditional theory
Now let’s look at the non-traditional theory. ‘Sons of God’ generally meant angels in the Old Testament. This word appears five times in the Old Testament, three times in the Book of Job. In the Book of Job, it refers to good angels in heaven, and in Genesis 6:2, 4, the angels are angels but refer to fallen angels (Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7, Genesis 6:2, 4). In fact, in the name ‘Bene HaElohim’, Elohim refers not only to the Creator, the Holy Trinity, but also to some kind of divine being, spiritual power, or heavenly reality. Therefore, this theory sees this part of Genesis as a union between fallen angels and human women.
First, the following questions are pointed out as problems with this theory.
First, how can angels, who are spiritual beings without bodies, have sexual intercourse with humans? Not having a body is something that is said by those who claim to follow the traditional theory because they do not know much about angels. We do not know much about angels. From now on, I will discuss the angels that the Bible shows us. Angels, like the resurrected Jesus, have bodies that transcend time and space, eat human food like people, and although angels have bodies different from human bodies, they appear to people with angelic bodies. In the Bible, angels who appeared to people always had male appearances. However, I do not know whether angels appear as males and have male genitals or can have sexual intercourse with humans and have children.
In summary, the question is whether God gave angels the sexual function to marry humans and have sexual intercourse and have children if they so choose. People misunderstand Jesus’ words in Matthew 22:30. Jesus said, “At the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but will be like angels in heaven.” This is an answer to Matthew 22:28. The Sadducees, who believed that there was no heaven, no God, no spirit, and no resurrection, tempted Jesus with a question about the resurrection. There were seven brothers, and they all married the same woman but died without a son. In response to the question, “Whose wife will this woman be among the seven brothers in the resurrection?” Jesus answered that no one will marry in heaven in the resurrection, and just as the angels in heaven do not marry, the resurrected saints will not marry either.
This means that people will not marry or be given in marriage after the resurrection. When people lived on earth, God made men and women marry in order to produce children, and gave them the method of sexual intercourse as a means to produce children. However, there is no such thing as marriage in heaven. When God created angels, He created them from the beginning, each with its own spirit, into hundreds of billions and trillions. However, human reproduction was done by having a husband and wife unite to produce children. All human spirits are one. Malachi 2:15 says that this was done in order to obtain godly offspring.
There is no direct statement in Matthew 22:30 that angels are not male or female (sex/gender). Also, the angels that the Lord mentioned are the holy angels in heaven, not the fallen angels who followed the devil.
Despite these problems, if we assume that angels have ‘sexual functions’ and follow this theory, the Nephilim problem is solved.
The second problem is that the main cause of the flood was that Satan’s fallen angels coveted human women and took all the women they liked as wives and gave birth to children, the Nephilim. If that is the case, then isn’t it mainly the fallen angels rather than the people who are responsible for the flood? The cause of the flood is that the Nephilim, who are half-human and half-angel, caused the whole world to become a mess due to their corruption, debauchery, and crime.
There are some scriptures that can answer this question. For example, Jude 5-7 and 2 Peter 2:4-6 in the New Testament. ‘5 You already knew all this, but I want to remind you that the Lord saved a people from Egypt and later destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their own position but left their own proper dwelling, he has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day. 7 Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them in the same way gave themselves over to sexual immorality and went after strange flesh, and are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.’
According to verse 5, the contents of verses 5, 6, and 7 are passages that the saints of the time when the writer of Jude lived were already familiar with. In the context of this passage, the crime of the angels who did not keep their position and “left” their dwelling place (this is an important clue) is that the fallen angels of a different dimension committed a crime against the daughters of humans of a different dimension, and they did not keep their position and committed a crime against other flesh. From the perspective of human women, this means going after a “different sex” and a “different flesh.” After that, it is said that Sodom and Gomorrah also went after a different sex. And the people of Sodom and Gomorrah committed the same crime as them, going after different flesh and committing adultery. Here, “they” means that just as the fallen angels who did not keep their position and left their dwelling place in verse 6 committed a crime against other flesh with the daughters of humans, the people of Sodom and Gomorrah also committed a crime against other flesh. It is different flesh when a man takes a man and a woman takes a woman as a sexual partner, not when a man takes a woman and a woman takes man as a sexual partner.
2 Peter 2:4-7, ‘4 For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of darkness to be kept until judgment; 5 And did not spare the old world, but preserved Noah with the seven others, a preacher of righteousness, bringing a flood on the world of the ungodly; 6 Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemning them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; 7 And delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the lewd conduct of the lawless men; 8 For that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds.’
2 Peter 2:4-5 says, ‘God made the angels who sinned,’ but these sinful angels are the ones who have their own status in Jude 6,7. It refers to angels who left their own dwelling place and committed adultery with the daughters of men, and it tells us that the incident in 2 Peter 2:4 is related to the incident of Noah’s flood according to verse 5.
We should not view the above two verses as simply referring to fallen angels who followed Satan in heaven in Rev. 12:4. Why are the fallen angels still active in the world, while the angels in Jude 6-7 are thrown into hell and kept until the judgment? The ‘angels who left their own dwelling place refers to the angels who followed other flesh in Genesis 6.
The time of Sodom/Gomorrah was indeed a time when people “revealed” their perverted sexual desires by pursuing other flesh. When the angels visited Lot’s house in the city of Sodom, the citizens of Sodom, who were obsessed with sex regardless of gender, rushed to have sexual relations with the two attractive people (angels) and were blinded (Gen. 19:1-11). That is why the atmosphere of Genesis 19 is exquisitely in harmony with Jude 6-7 and 2 Peter 2:4-6.
Therefore, [if we follow this theory], the Nephilim, which were born as a result of the angels who left their positions and places and the human women who enjoyed ‘different fleshes’ giving birth to giant children, would have caused the world to become violent and corrupt due to their inhumane actions, and sin would have spread throughout the world, and God would have been angry. Of course, this is not the only factor in the flood. The cause was not only the Nephilim phenomenon, but also the overall prevalence of human sin.
In conclusion, we cannot rationally understand whether fallen angels had male genitalia and could have taken human daughters as wives and given birth to Nephilim, but since the Bible says so in Jude 6:7 and 2 Peter 2:4-7, we cannot help but believe that fallen angels took human daughters and gave birth to Nephilim.
(If you go to Google or YouTube and type in Giant human, they were real. or In Ancient Times When The Giants Walked The Earth., you will find tons of documentation and videos of these early facts.)
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