Who are the sons of God and the daughters of men

[David in NJ]

the sons of God are whoever are faithful to Him weather angles or humans.

Genesis 6:7 proves that in this case they were human if not how would you explain it?

Genesis 6:7 definitely proves something that has been determined by other scriptures as to the correct answer.
The understanding comes from scripture which verifies Genesis 6:7

Marty, take it to the Lord in prayer and allow the Lord to answer you as you seek Him for the correct answer.

But i will say this - 2 Peter 2:4-5 and Jude and Luke 20:34-36 are self explanatory.

If you embrace these living words, without adding or taking away, they will feed your spirit/mind when submitted in with prayer.

 

[ewq1938]

God did not exchange bodily fluids with Mary.

Which is a strawman fallacy because no one thinks that happened. Jesus is still God the Father's literal son. He simply caused Mary to be pregnant a different way.

 

[Grailhunter]

Which is a strawman fallacy because no one thinks that happened. Jesus is still God the Father's literal son. He simply caused Mary to be pregnant a different way.

This one I run into a lot.....anything but what the Bible describes. Just anything.

 

[ewq1938]

Then why doesn't the verse below mention fallen angles?

Genesis 6:7
7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.”

The verse above proves that they were humans

The flood wasn't to kill angels...but their half human children...literal giants. The angels were cast into hades and chained and will go to the LOF eventually.

 

[CadyandZoe]

Which is a strawman fallacy because no one thinks that happened. Jesus is still God the Father's literal son. He simply caused Mary to be pregnant a different way.

If God caused Mary to be pregnant apart from the natural, then how is Jesus literally his son? That makes no sense to me.

 

[rwb]

The flood wasn't to kill angels...but their half human children...literal giants. The angels were cast into hades and chained and will go to the LOF eventually.

Then why weren't the giants all gone after the flood? They were still in existence much later one in particular named Goliath, whom David killed.

 

[Timtofly]

So you have humans in heaven singing for joy before God created Adam and Eve then. And you have humans going to heaven to present themselves before Yahweh

All human reasoning. What kind of humans were they then? The term is only mentioned a total of five times and you have made them humans before God created humans and going to heaven . And if the sons of God are human who are the daughters of mankind?

YOu are once again promoting a second line of humanity created apart from Adam. Yuo0 are making alot of guesses to promote a doctrine without any biblical support.

That is not what the verse even says. The angels/stars sang in the heavens.

The sons of God/humanity shouted back from the earth.

That was a thousand years before Adam disobeyed God.

You don't even read my post correctly. Adam was a son of God prior to disobeying God. Then he died, just as God promised. It was Adam's dead corruptible flesh, and his offspring that made any offspring from a son of God via procreation with Adam's corruptible flesh, wicked sinners.

Adam's offspring are humans, because Noah, a direct descendant and his 3 sons were in Adam's dead corruptible image as the only ones left on earth after the Flood.

There was only one race of humanity, the sons of God. Being in dead flesh is not a race of humans. What we even call races today come from Adam's 3 sons.

Adam was a son of God who shouted the week of creation. Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden 1000 years after creation week.

Adam was a dead son of God living in dead corruptible flesh. The sons of God produced offspring as sons of God. Many generations later, after Adam disobeyed God, his offspring procreated with the sons of God. That did not remove Adam's dead corruptible flesh status. It caused the sons of God to be born into corruptible dead flesh.

Adam's offspring did not become righteous. The result was more wickedness. You all speculate it was angels who cannot even procreate, doing the impossible. All on earth were humans and most were sons of God. Compared to Adam dead corruptible flesh, the sons of God were giants. We don't know how big they were, except for bones dug up out of the ground, and that is still speculation where they came from.

The church removed to heaven would not be a new phenomenon. The sons of God were removed as well. We don't have the full story and you all make up more absurd speculation than what is in Scripture. We have history from Adam's perspective.

It is like having no information of World War 1, and base every thing you know about the war, on a potato farmer in Idaho, who passed on his farm to his offspring. More went on over the whole earth than selling potatoes in Idaho. Even if a war hero married one of his great granddaughters.

 

[Timtofly]

Well you have that cock-eyed theory that God created Adam and Eve and a whole bunch more people which even Jesus denies.

You have to create lots of material that is not found in the Scripture to justify your position. And you do not support it with any proof.

As far as teh rebellious angels- Sorry but the ones who rebelled with Lucifer are still roaming teh heavens and the earth seeking whom they may devour. there are numerous passages to that effect, unless Paul and Peter and JOhn are wrong and you got better info.

No the angels in chains of darkness are the ones who left heaven at some time and procreated with human women.

Sounds like you have a human speculation story without any Scripture. The sons of God did not leave heaven, because they started out on earth. To get to heaven, they would have to leave earth first.

Satan and the angels only rebelled one time, now you have two different angel rebellions. Two different leaders???? You don't even know who these devils and demons are that roam the earth.

Angels cannot procreate. Your impossible scenario turns Jesus into a liar.

 

[Timtofly]

You rproblem is you rip verses out of context and end up with bad doctrine.

4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

The stars and sons of god sang when the foundations of the earth were laid! That happened before man was created!

Now you are taking verses out of context and order. You have stars created before the 4th day.

Do you not understand that God was reminding Job of the whole week of creation, not a time period prior to creation?

The stars were on day 4. The sons of God on day 6. That was the week of creation. 8,640 minutes. Or 144 hours. Or 6 days.

Humans are fallen sons of God, just like those angels chained in darkness for the 5th Trumpet woe, are fallen stars.

 

[Timtofly]

Are you really that ignorant or just pretending to be????????????????????????? Moses had Noahs record! C'mon man!

Where in Scripture did Noah write down the history of life prior to the Flood?

Why are you dissing God's record given to Moses?

 

[Timtofly]

Mankind is only referred to as Sons of God in the New Testament. It is because of faith in Jesus a human being has the authority to become a son of god!

John 1:12​

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12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

"Becoming" is the same thing as being restored to Adam's condition prior to Adam's disobedience. We are restored sons of God, back to the state prior to death.

Adam physically died. He went from God's permanent incorruptible physical body to a temporal corruptible physical body. The soul is all that remained in the image of God. Death is not the image of God. Life is the image of God. It is not a contrast between spiritual and physical. It is a contrast between death and life.

Heaven is not spiritual and earth is not physical. All of creation is both spiritual and physical. Humans are just spiritually blind. In fact outside of the Holy Spirit, we are not even supposed to know or figure out the spiritual part of creation. That is why we have pagan humanism and the occult. The lost don't seem to take God at His Word, and allow Satan and demonic forces to control them.

 

[Timtofly]

Yes, i have checked this out thoroughly.

No humans of the flesh are referred to as 'sons of God'.

Only the Elect of God, Born-Again of the Spirit, are referred to as 'sons of God' and this only pertains to their spirit - not the flesh.

Mark 12:24-27
Jesus answered and said to them, “Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God?
For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.”

1 John 3:1-3
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

"Like the angels" refers to procreation. You left out that part.

We don't become angels as sons of God.

If we became the angels we would be stars, not sons of God.

 

[David in NJ]

"Like the angels" refers to procreation. You left out that part.

We don't become angels as sons of God.

If we became the angels we would be stars, not sons of God.

“At that time Michael, the great prince who stands watch over your people, will rise up. There will be a time of distress, the likes of which will not have occurred from the beginning of nations until that time. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Then the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens,
and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.

 

[Timtofly]

If she was a virgin, and I believe she was. This means she had no partner. Don't change a miracle into a natural act.

The birth of Jesus via the Holy Spirit was not a "natural", of the nature, act. It was God coming to earth in human flesh. The Holy Spirit was not a "partner". Just like God created us out of dust, surely God could create Himself out of the material in Mary's womb, even if God put the necessary components in her womb.

 

[strepho]

Jude clearly document the fallen angels held in chains and darkness, cross reference, gospel of Peter. Fallen angels left their place of habitation and had sexual relations with daughters of Adam. The fallen angels and satan are going into lake of fire. Luke chapter 21, Matthew chapter 24, the fallen angels are coming back, 6th trump. Satan as antichrist is thier leader. They will do same thing as in Noah's time. Jesus warned in Matthew chapter 24 about this. God is using satan and fallen angels to test people near future. Many people are biblically illiterate. Listening to misguided preachers or too lazy to study the bible. What's the consequences of worship antichrist??. Trip to sheol. Its holding place for the spirtualty dead or wicked. Luke chapter 16, Richman and Lazarus. There's two sides of the gulf. Paradise and sheol. Get the picture. Study the bible.

 

[Timtofly]

Those scriptures i gave you are 100% irrefutably directly connected to understanding who the "sons of God" were/are in Genesis ch6

So also is Romans 8: 9-11"though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness"
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1 Cor ch15 - Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Our flesh bodies were not Born-Again, only our spirit.

This you said is true: "But this is not the final state of the man in Christ."

Focus on the TRUTH = Luke 20:34-36

Jesus answered and said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage.
But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;
nor can they die anymore, for they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Focus on the TRUTH = 1 John 3:1-3

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

If you deny or misalign scripture, you will come to your own understanding (PhD) and FAIL to SEE what has been Said.

Not just spirit, which is put on over the physical body, you are forgetting the physical body, per Paul in 2 Corinthians 5, the rest of the story.

When this body of dead flesh is shed, the soul immediately has a permanent incorruptible physical body to put on.

Paul was not declaring the physical was not allowed in heaven or Paradise. Paul was saying Adam's dead corruptible flesh was not allowed in Paradise. In fact, all the souls from the OT, excluding the two witnesses Moses and Elijah, had to wait as souls in Abraham's bosom, until the Cross. Satan never got the physical body of Moses in death. Most think Moses was buried, and his soul went to Abraham's bosom. Yet like Elijah, he was still in the physical form on the mount of Transfiguration. Also Lazarus was the first resurrection out of Abraham's bosom to prove the resurrection of the Cross would also be a reality. The first resurrection gives all souls a permanent incorruptible physical body to put on. The first resurrection deals only with the physical, and all sons of God have a physical body.

Why do you deny this point:

"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

The term house is the physical body. One on earth, Adam's dead flesh. One in Paradise, God's permanent incorruptible physical body. From a strictly logical point, the original body was made out of dust. So would be the one waiting in heaven. God did not make only Adam's body out of dust. Genesis 2 shows us how all those created on day 6 were formed. There are still those original sons of God in heaven, because they were there when Job was alive. That does not turn them into angels. They just live in Heaven now, because we would go blind looking at them. Their spirit is a bright light as the sun. That is what transfiguration does. It allows Jesus to turn the spirit off and on like a light switch. Jesus demonstrates how the spirit is put on over the physical body. Those living in the Millennium on earth are not glorified. They are not in the full image of God. They also will procreate and subdue the earth with more humans.

But they will not be in Adam's dead corruptible flesh either. Sin will be removed and existence will be everlasting righteousness.

The other point you all seem to overlook is that a son of God while referred to as male was exactly like Adam, before Eve the female was taken out. How they multiplied is unknown to us. Certainly Adam was both male and female before Eve was removed. So even the point a daughter of Adam, with all the pain and suffering of childbirth would have been a point of attraction along with the physical makeup of a female.

Angels are neither male nor female, they are stars, bright lights in the firmament. Putting on a male form did not turn them into humans, nor gave them sexual attributes. Jesus said that those in heaven would be like the angels, not that they would become angels. They have physical bodies, but it seems now they are neither male nor female, but as the angels. As a star does an angel even have a physical body? If the star left the firmament on their own, without God's will, why would they take on human form? Only angels sent by God could do that. That is not some default ability. The word angel means messenger, so the only form even as a messenger would be human. Angels would certainly not appear in the firmament like they are portrayed. In the firmament they are only bright lights, and not necessarily in a physical body like humans or in human form with or without wings. It is the archangels or cherubs that have different physical forms, than just stars. Satan was described as taking on dragon form, ie a serpent with legs and feet. Dragons got the raw end of that ability as they lost their legs and turned into normal snakes. Did dragons have wings, or is that a made up addition, of man, like giving angels wings?

Also saying Jesus has no physical body in heaven is ridiculous. It is like the chicken and egg argument. Who had a physical body first? The sons of God or the only begotten Son of God? If the sons of God were formed in the image of God, then the image of God existed first. We were given a physical body, because the Word had a physical body, and that body had the nail scares and spear wound in the side. Jesus ascended from the mount of Olives into eternity, and "then" Genesis 1:1 happened.

Jesus told them they already knew about that place, because it was written down in the book of Genesis. You think human imagination can come up with original thoughts? What ever a human can imagine, God already wrote about it in God's Word. Even submarines, ever heard of Jonah?

 

[Grailhunter]

If she was a virgin, and I believe she was. This means she had no partner. Don't change a miracle into a natural act.

The birth of Jesus via the Holy Spirit was not a "natural", of the nature, act. It was God coming to earth in human flesh. The Holy Spirit was not a "partner". Just like God created us out of dust, surely God could create Himself out of the material in Mary's womb, even if God put the necessary components in her womb.

Any of this could have happened. But the wording in the scriptures do not fit these descriptions. And just as importantly none of it would make Christ the Son of God. These descriptions would be a creation of a God, not a Son.

A miracle of God.....?
A creation of a God....?
A manifestation of a baby.....?
A materialization of God...?
A reverse metamorphosis of God...?

But none of this would describe God begetting a Son.
Christ was/is the only begotten Son of God.
He was conceived in Miriam's womb and Yahweh was His Father.
What does beget mean....Old Testament examples if you need any.
What does conceive mean?
What does Son mean?

You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

The word Son here and throughout the New Testament defines the act and the result. It defines the relationship Father and Son.
Yeshua was not God's miracle manifestation, Christ is His Son through the act called begetting and conception, not miracle manifestation.
Gave His only begotten Son denotes God's personal sacrifice for us....He gave His Son...not His miracle creation of another God.
Not God so loved the world that He gave Himself....for those that believe God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one person.

If it was not important that Christ be the Son of God, He could have appeared on a mountain or somewhere....he could have arrived in a fiery chariot. Which was what some of the Jews were expecting because they were looking for Elijah to Introduce the Messiah.

And God had done miracles of the womb before....but that did not make them His Son....John was the son of Elizabeth and Zechariah and Isaac was the son of Sarah and Abraham.

False beliefs skew the meaning of the scriptures.
And you have to come up with some klondike and imaginative ideas to skew these scriptures....

 

[Timtofly]

The account begins with mankind multiplying and giving birth to daughters. Born among mankind were sons and daughters. The question is who were "the sons of God" and "the daughters of men"? According to Gen 4:26 from the lineage of Seth a human son was born, and he was called Enos. It was then that mankind began to call upon the name of the Lord. Is this enough to prove the line that originated from Seth, the son of Adam, who was another son appointed by God instead of Abel whom Cain killed, were human sons of God who procreated and produced offspring with daughters of men from the line of Cain? Or the line that introduced revenge and murder to mankind?

Genesis 4:25-26 (KJV) And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.

From this passage we learn that calling upon the name of the Lord did not come from the line of Cain, who had been driven away from the line of Seth to become a vagabond upon the earth. It would be unreasonable to deny those who call upon the name of the LORD are not the sons of God. But who are the daughters of men these sons of God desired and took against the will of God?

Genesis 4:3-5 (KJV) And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Offerings were obviously made unto the LORD even before mankind began to call upon His name. Both Cain and Abel gave offerings, but only the offering made of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof by Abel were acceptable to the LORD. The offering of the fruit of the ground by Cain wasn't even said to be the firstfruit that was what the LORD desired.

The story goes on to show how in a rage of jealous anger Cain murdered his brother Abel and was subsequently driven out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. Cain's wife conceived and bare Enoch, he built a city and called the city after the name of his son, Enoch. As this line continues, we read of Enoch's son, Lamech who was a murderer and considered the vengeance of God toward Cain would be light compared to his own (see Gen 4:23-24).

The point for this rambling is that a strong case can be made that the daughters of men were women in unbelief, being born in an atmosphere without being in the presence of the LORD, and no desire for calling upon His name. They were daughters of wickedness, and though beautiful to look at forbidden of those who called upon the name of the LORD, the sons of God to marry. In disobedience to God the faithful sons of God married and bare children of wickedness through these daughters of men. The resulting flood that God brought upon the earth was to rid the world of this great wickedness of mankind, not of fallen angels. It is mankind in unbelief, without desiring to call upon the name of the Lord whose hearts are only evil continually, not fallen angels, if there be any such thing.

Genesis 6:1-5 (KJV) And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 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. 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. 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.

Calling on the Lord does not turn one into a son of God. Cain was a son of God. Seth was not a son of God, but in Adam's dead image. No where does it say that Cain and Abel were in Adam's dead image.

The only place God came to visit was in the Garden of Eden. The temple was the next place God came once a year into the Holy of Holies. Jesus and God did form a relationship with Abraham involving communication, and earthly visits.

No where does it ever say Adam and Eve repented, even though Eve did acknowledge God allowed her to give birth over 100 years after Cain and Abel. Seth did not repent. As you pointed out it was not until Enos was born that the family of Adam started to call out to the Lord. They were the wicked sinners who needed the Lord.

Cain was forsaken by God and cast out of the Garden just like Adam and Eve were. The difference is that Cain was protected, and no human was supposed to avenge the death of Abel by taking Cains life in return. But Cain did not physically nor spiritually die, like Adam and Eve. But it was not his offspring who were the only sons of God attracted to Adam's offspring. Besides they would have been cousins.

The sons of God existed since the 6th day of creation. They started out as a group, not just one or even two. There were many, and Adam was just one of them, not the only son of God. Eve came after Adam was placed in the Garden. Eve was not created on the 6th day. Eve was not a son of God in the same sense Adam even was prior to Eve's arrival. Many seem to be oblivious to the whole part that Eve was taken out of Adam. For future generations to work, it was no longer from a single body, but from two halves that together make up a whole. It was not that Sons of God came in pairs. If they had, then Adam and Eve would have been placed in the Garden together at the same. A son of God was one body both male and female. So the sons of God became attracted to those from Adam that carried the next generation to term. Obviously a male offspring of Adam could not do that. But wickedness ensued, because obviously as all sexual sins, it became every which way except how God originally planned. The sons of God multiplied one way and were always to multiply that way. Adam and Eve multiplied another way, and were to always multiply that way, along with their offspring. Not that it would be impossible for the inevitable to happen. But that God's judgment would also happen once God's plan was interfered with.

 

[ewq1938]

If God caused Mary to be pregnant apart from the natural, then how is Jesus literally his son?

The pregnancy obviously.

 

[CadyandZoe]

The pregnancy obviously.

What is "obvious" by her pregnancy? She was sleeping with a man other than Joseph. You and I both know this to be untrue. We believe the scriptures. We both believe that Mary was innocent of adultery and that she slept with no other man. But if we were restricted to what is "obvious" we would be compelled to conclude a story other than what is recorded in the gospels.

Let's look at Luke's account, briefly.

Luke 1:34-36

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God. And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.​

What does it mean, "the power of the Most High will overshadow you"? Earlier, the Angel reveals God's will concerning the child Jesus, and where his life will lead: the conception of Jesus, the birth of Jesus, the supremacy of Jesus, the kingdom of Jesus and his relationship with the God most high. ALL of these things, not just the virgin birth, will come about by means of the power of God.

Mary hears that her future son will be a king, ruling over the kingdom of God, but it all starts with the conception of the baby and so she asks the angel about that. The Angel speaks about the Holy Spirit exerting creative energy upon the womb of the virgin Mary as an "overshadowing." In the OT, an "overshadowing" was a cloud that protected those on the ground from the midday sun. Figuratively speaking, the word "overshadowing" indicated the idea that God protects his people.

Does the Angel speak of a single event or more than that? We typically think of this as a single event. The Holy Spirit brought about the pregnancy in Mary and this is how the power of the Most High "overshadowed" her. But is this ALL that this means?

In order to more fully understand the Angel's answer to Mary, we should carefully consider the Angel's complete word to her.

Let's go back a few verses:

Luke 1:30-34

The Angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.” Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?” ​

Here the Angel reveals more than one prophetic event: the conception of Jesus, the birth of Jesus, the supremacy of Jesus, the kingdom of Jesus and his relationship with the God most high. ALL of these things, not just the virgin birth, will come about by means of the power of the most high.

The Angel Speaks about the Holy Spirit exerting creative energy upon the womb of the virgin Mary as an "overshadowing" but the Angel meant to include the entire prophecy in his pronouncement, "for this reason he shall be called the son of God." He will be called the son of God because God will continue to exert his great power to bring about the kingdom of his son on the earth.

God's mighty power didn't end with the virgin birth; God continues to exert his mighty power to bring about the kingdom of his son. And for THAT reason, he shall be called the Son of God.