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Old 06-01-2009, 06:56 PM
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Okay folks, this has to be explained... No more skipping around the words...

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Genesis 6:1-5
[1]And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

[2]That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

[3]And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

[4]There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

[5]And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Verse 1 "sets up" verse 2. In verse 2, the union is first described which is between either some type of spiritual beings and human women or between the Godly seed (Sethites) and non-Sethite women.

NOW verse 3... What offended God? The deeds of MEN! Fleshly men, not angelic "men".

THEN we come to verse 4. It begins with a NEW SENTENCE! No linking words exist that connect back to either verse 3 or verse 2! It is a statement. Following it is the phrase "and also after that," a phrase which separates the topic. It does not provide a link between "giants" and the offspring of the offending union. The offspring become the "men of renown", not "giants".

FINALLY, verse 5 AGAIN enforces that God is offended at MANKIND!

- Where is the judgment against some kind of spiritual beings? If these creatures have some kind of power over women, why is God offended at MAN (verse 3 and 5)???

- Why is NOTHING said ever again about these half-breeds?

- If the union was possible, and I can see no evidence anywhere else in the Scriptures that it is, then it must still be possible today as well as throughout history. Where are the giants?


This is a difficult passage of Scripture. I will readily grant that. The absence of any other observable evidence of the capability of some type of spirit beings to go around gathering harems of beautiful virgins screams out at me that this interpretation is very flawed.