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*The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men (Con’t)*
 
Genesis 6:1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, \\ 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
\\ 3 And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
\\ 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them.
Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
\\ 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
\\ 6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
\\ 7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
\\ 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
*A Common View*
\\ This passage is generates a lot of controversy.
My understanding of this passage may be radically different than some of the popular theories of this passage.
I am going to begin by looking at an explanation in which I disagree so that we can grasp a complete picture of this passage.
I always use scripture to interpret scripture.
When we apply this passage to the rest of scripture, I believe we get a clear understanding of this passage.
We will often do injustice to a passage if we try to make it a self-contained truth and remove it from the context of the rest of scripture.
Chuck Missler (See Note ) offers a detailed explanation of this passage in his article ‘Mischievous Angels or Sethites?’
He contends that the two prominent beliefs are: the sons of God are either angels or from the line of Seth.
It has been argued that the children of Seth were holy and the rest of the world corrupted.
They polluted themselves my mixing their holy blood with the other races of the earth.
Chuck attests that this passage is a direct reference to angels intermarrying with mankind to produce a polluted race of giants.
He goes on to explain that this didn’t happen only once, but twice and will surely happen a third time.
The polluted race was wiped out by the flood, but 2,000 years after the flood, the Israelites entered the Promised Land only to find them again.
The proper biblical translation for ‘giants’ is ‘Nephilim’.
This same word is translated as giants in Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Here is how Chuck Missler explains this reoccurrence after the flood:
One of the disturbing aspects of the Old Testament record was God’s instructions, upon entering the land of Canaan, to wipe out every man, woman and child of certain tribes inhabiting the land.
This is difficult to justify without the insight of a "gene pool problem" from the remaining Nephilim, Rephaim, et al., which seems to illuminate the difficulty.
Chuck also believes this will happen again in the end times, which brings on God’s final judgment.
He explains that Peter and Jude describe angels that were judged for failing to keep their first estate but sinned.
This sin was physical union with man.
As a result they are immediately sent into hell and bound with chains of darkness.
I have a problem with this explanation.
There are three areas I see in scripture that disagrees with this idea.
*First*, why would angels continue to commit a sin knowing that the repercussion is immediate and swift judgment?
Unlike people, they don’t have blind desires tempting them from unseen sources.
If they saw their peers destroyed, they would not willingly put themselves in the path of judgment.
We see this fear in Luke 8:31.
Jesus was casting out demons and they begged Him not to send them to the abyss before the appointed time.
They know their time is short and are not eager to be judged.
*Second*, angels do not have the power to create nor do they have the power to procreate.
Only God has the power to create life.
The Bible gives several examples of this.
Matthew 22:30 tells us, "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven."
Sexual union is unique to physical creation and is temporary.
When we live in our glorified bodies, we will no longer need or desire sex.
All pleasure on earth is only a foreshadow of what is to come in heaven.
God promises that He will be more to us than anything we can experience or even imagine here on earth.
What we experience here will pass away to make room for what is abundantly better.
Angels can’t procreate.
They don’t marry nor are given in marriage, yet the passage in Genesis clearly says the sons of God took wives.
In light of this, these could not have been angels.
Angels also do not have the power to create life.
People may be involved in the physical aspect of procreation, but only God can create the life that is produced.
Some of these passages clarify this:
Exodus 4:11 So the LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth?
Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind?
Have not I, the LORD?
John 9:2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,hat he was born blind?" \\ 3 Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.
Psalm 139:13 For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb.
\\ 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
\\ 15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
\\ 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.
God creates all life.
Even a physically defected person has a special purpose in God’s plan.
Only He can make the union into life.
An angel cannot do this.
*Third*, God never judges anyone on physical attributes.
To say this was a gene pool problem is preposterous.
This twisted view of righteousness is what gives birth to racial supremacy groups like Arian Nation and other racial purity groups that violate everything that scripture teaches.
They take a single passage and build a doctrine around it that violates the rest of scripture and deceive themselves into thinking they are doing God a service.
One thing omitted by the ‘Mischievous Angels’ article is that God answers the question differently than the conclusion given.
This article says "it must have been a gene pool problem" but the passage sited answers the question directly.
The passage doesn’t stop with ‘destroy them’ without giving a reason why.
The ‘why’ is clearly answered:
Deuteronomy 7:2 "and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them.
You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.
3 "Nor shall you make marriages with them.
You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.
\\ 4 "For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; so the anger of the LORD will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.
\\ 5 "But thus you shall deal with them: you shall destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.
Why? "For they will turn your sons away from following Me…".
When the children of Israel were about to enter the Promised Land, God made it clear why the nations were being driven out by saying, "Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, 'Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you."
(Deuteronomy 9:4).
The people had polluted themselves – not by their gene pools – but by their vile practices of worshipping idols and other gods.
They mutilated themselves, their children, and did many other detestable things.
The reason they were being destroyed was indeed for the same reason the pre-flood world was destroyed – because they were morally bankrupt.
Spiritually they were already dead and buried.
God has never judged a person on their physical appearance or genetic make up.
We are judged solely on our spiritual decisions.
We either choose God or stand in rejection of Him and follow the gods of this world.
There is no such thing as a polluted race.
We are all descendants of Adam and we all have a polluted gene pool.
All disease and defects are a result of the curse of sin.
God said in 1 Samuel 16, "For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
The pre-flood world was not destroyed because they were giants, but as Genesis 6 clearly states:
5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
\\ … \\ 13 The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
It wasn’t a physical problem, but a heart problem.
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