Berean
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I never said Jesus was a "crated" I said he was Created!Jesus Christ is not a crated being as He was with God from the beginning.
Tell me, WHAT "beginning" are you speaking of?
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I never said Jesus was a "crated" I said he was Created!Jesus Christ is not a crated being as He was with God from the beginning.
I never said Jesus was a "crated" I said he was Created!
“If you think that the Universe is filled with other sentient beings of God’s creation, then why is the situation on earth so awful? Why are humans beings such poor examples of God’s creation….did he make them that way? Why would he? And why would he create other worlds until he gets this one sorted out?”
“Jealousy of the rich“?
Send me a pm if and when you learn humility.
You are twisting scripture to match your belief. I don't read long post filled with half the bible.
I've heard the Nephilim interpretation as the offspring of Angels and humans, and don't buy it - nor do I accept tue Book of Enoch as God's word. God is the creator of all life. Angels were not equipped to procreate. If there were such a hybrid, God would have created them ... as an abomination ... to be condemned? No.Fallen Angels and Demons Are Not the Same.
Fallen Angels are the original Watchers who sinned in Genesis 6 by taking human women and creating genetic abominations. They still possess heavenly (though corrupted) bodies and powers. The 200 Genesis 6 Watchers are all now chained in Tartarus, as stated in 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 1:6. However, other fallen angels are still active in high places, ruling over nations and spiritual territories as seen in Daniel 10:13 and Ephesians 6:12.
Demons, also called unclean spirits, are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and human women destroyed in the flood. They are earthbound, restless, and hostile. They crave to inhabit human bodies, as stated in Luke 11:24. Jesus cast them out often during His ministry, including the case of the man possessed by "Legion" in Mark 5:9. They fear being sent to the Abyss, as shown in Luke 8:31. They are not angels and do not have angelic power or form.
The key difference is that fallen angels are the fathers, while demons are the cursed spirits of their unnatural offspring.
This distinction is made explicitly in the Book of Enoch and is fully consistent with Scripture.
I've heard the Nephilim interpretation as the offspring of Angels and humans, and don't buy it - nor do I accept tue Book of Enoch as God's word. God is the creator of all life. Angels were not equipped to procreate. If there were such a hybrid, God would have created them ... as an abomination ... to be condemned? No.
The theory that angels mated with women is a flawed misinterpretation! The Nephilim were a breed of large men, like Andre the Giant or larger like Goliath.Genesis 6:2-4 says plainly that “the sons of God” took wives from among human women, and their children became giants — the Nephilim.
Nice try. These are just different names for fallen angels.Fallen angels and devils/evil spirits/unclean spirits/demons are on the same team , team Satan .
Of course. Principalities are Deman prince's in charge of various regions of the world, like China, Russia, India, The Middle East, etc. All areas where false religions abound, these princes/ generals of Satan are in charge and warned against by Holy angels.do you agree with me that Daniel Chapter 10 shows a conflict between fallen angels and God's faithful angels ?
Exactly!Fallen Angels and Demons Are Not the Same.
Fallen Angels are the original Watchers who sinned in Genesis 6 by taking human women and creating genetic abominations. They still possess heavenly (though corrupted) bodies and powers. The 200 Genesis 6 Watchers are all now chained in Tartarus, as stated in 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 1:6. However, other fallen angels are still active in high places, ruling over nations and spiritual territories as seen in Daniel 10:13 and Ephesians 6:12.
Demons, also called unclean spirits, are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and human women destroyed in the flood. They are earthbound, restless, and hostile. They crave to inhabit human bodies, as stated in Luke 11:24. Jesus cast them out often during His ministry, including the case of the man possessed by "Legion" in Mark 5:9. They fear being sent to the Abyss, as shown in Luke 8:31. They are not angels and do not have angelic power or form.
The key difference is that fallen angels are the fathers, while demons are the cursed spirits of their unnatural offspring.
This distinction is made explicitly in the Book of Enoch and is fully consistent with Scripture.
Only Earth?
Doesn't it seem likely that God has created gazillions of worlds with uncountable numbers of people?
Here's a thought. Maybe one day you too will help God to create a new world filled with sinful people and that YOU will go into the world to be the Christ for them.
Wouldn't that be something?
No doubt.The use of holy water in Catholicism mirrors the ritual purification practices of the ancient pagan priesthoods, especially the Sumerian and Mesopotamian religions —
The theory that angels mated with women is a flawed misinterpretation! The Nephilim were a breed of large men, like Andre the Giant or larger like Goliath.
Men are "sons of God".
> If angels could procreate, would God make them that way foreknowing the outcome? God is the creator, so any life form is His creation. What would be God's purpose in creating angels that could procreate?
Gen. 6:4 says they were men, just large men.
The clue lies in our perception of what life was like before the flood.
This brings us to Noah's sons. Pre-Flood men and animals lived hundreds of years, their growth cycle much longer, needless ti say, they were huge. Lizards don't stop growing, hence the dinosaurs. But God limited man's age to 120 years after the flood. Noah's sons were men of renown, sons of God who still lived longer and still mated with later generations whose lifespan and size were limited. The large size, which was a component of their genetic makeup, gradually washed out. We saw remnants in the Philistines, sons of Arnak, Goliath. He was a giant, but could have been a descendant of the Rehaim, (Nephilim breed).
The Nephilim (Numbers 13:32-33), appear to be present before and after the flood. The Emites, the Ammonites (or Anakites) and the Rephaim (Deuteronomy 2:10-11), existed after the Flood and appear to be separate entities although the scribes often use the phrase ‘like’ suggesting they had a similar phenotype. The Anakim seem to be derived from the Nephilim. The Rephaim although similar to the Nephilim, appear to be distinct from them with respect to family lineage. Deuteronomy 2.21 states the Rephaim were largely subdued by the Ammonites which ‘dwelt in their stead’ One of the most prominent Rephaim was Og, King of Bashan, who slept in ‘a bedstead of iron; nine cubits was the length, and four cubits the breadth of it’ (Deuteronomy 3:11). A cubit was the distance from the elbow to the fingertips, so that is about 13x6. Allowing some extra room for stretching, a cubit above and below his body, He was likely 8-9 feet tall. He appears to be one of the last survivors of the Rephaim. A race of giants implies a hereditary element and the origins of some names may indicate the genetic pathway involved.
Only Earth?
Doesn't it seem likely that God has created gazillions of worlds with uncountable numbers of people?
Here's a thought. Maybe one day you too will help God to create a new world filled with sinful people and that YOU will go into the world to be the Christ for them.
Wouldn't that be something?
I agree.1. "Men are the sons of God."
Not in the way Genesis 6:2 uses the term.
In Genesis, the phrase “sons of God” (Hebrew: bene ha’elohim) is never used for men — it always refers to angelic beings.
Job 1:6 – “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.”
Job 38:7 – “…when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”
In Hebrew usage, bene ha’elohim never refers to human males until much later metaphorical usage in the New Testament (i.e., those born again in Christ).
In Genesis 6, it refers to divine, supernatural beings — angels — not Seth’s descendants.
2. "If angels could procreate, why would God make them that way?"
God also gave mankind free will — that doesn’t mean He caused the Fall.
The Watchers sinned by violating their created boundaries — not by obeying God's design, but by rebelling against it.
Jude 1:6–7 – “And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling... just as Sodom and Gomorrah... indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire…”
2 Peter 2:4 – “God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into Tartarus…”
This is not about normal human corruption. These angels "left their estate" — their domain — to do something unnatural: take wives and produce offspring. That’s the entire context of their judgment.
3. "Nephilim were just large men, like Goliath or Andre the Giant."
Then explain why God sent a global flood just to wipe out "tall guys."
Or why these “large men” had semi-divine fathers, as the text literally says:
Genesis 6:4 – “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days — and also afterward — when the sons of God went in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”
The text doesn’t say they were just tall. It says they were born from a union between supernatural beings and women.
Also, Goliath is descended from the Rephaim/Anakim, who themselves were remnants of this hybrid line (Numbers 13:33). That’s not debunking the angelic-human hybrid interpretation — it confirms it.
4. “They lived longer before the flood, so they were just naturally bigger.”
This is speculation with zero textual support.
Genesis doesn’t say “everyone was a giant” — it says the Nephilim were the result of a specific event: the sons of God taking wives and bearing children.
Also, Noah wasn't a giant. Nor were his sons. The Ark was measured in cubits based on normal-sized humans.
5. “Enoch and Jude are irrelevant.”
Jude quotes Enoch word-for-word and ties it directly to the angels that sinned in Genesis 6.
The early church fathers — Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian — all accepted the angelic interpretation and the Book of Enoch as historically valid.
It wasn’t until St. Augustine of Hippo (4th–5th century AD), writing under the rising influence of Imperial Roman theology, that the “Sethite view” — the notion that the “sons of God” in Genesis 6 referred merely to the godly line of Seth intermarrying with the daughters of Cain — began to gain traction. This interpretation, while widely adopted in later Western Christendom, has no foundation in ancient Hebrew linguistics, Second Temple Jewish thought, early church exegesis, or intertestamental literature.
No respected Hebraist, Second Temple scholar, Dead Sea Scrolls expert, or patristic theologian prior to the 4th century held the Sethite view. In fact, the overwhelming consensus among:
the writers of 1 Enoch,
the scribes of Qumran,
the translators of the Septuagint,
the authors of Jubilees,
and the early church fathers such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Athenagoras, Tertullian, and Lactantius,
…was that the “sons of God” were angelic beings — the Watchers — who transgressed divine boundaries and mated with human women, producing hybrid offspring: the Nephilim.
Augustine’s reinterpretation was not rooted in the Hebrew text or ancient tradition — it was a philosophical compromise, influenced by Neoplatonism and a desire to demythologize the Genesis narrative in light of Greco-Roman sensibilities.
In short: the Sethite theory is a late, Western innovation — not the historic view of either Judaism or early Christianity.
Genesis 6 says what it says — and all the ancient Jewish and early Christian sources agreed:
The sons of God were angels,
The Nephilim were hybrid offspring,
And the whole situation was so corrupt and unnatural, God wiped it all out with the Flood.
Denying the supernatural in Genesis 6 isn’t interpretation.
It’s whitewashing a divine rebellion that the rest of Scripture repeatedly affirms.
There has been much conflicting arguments over these passages by the best of scholars. Let me further explain my view.1. "Men are the sons of God."
Not in the way Genesis 6:2 uses the term.
In Genesis, the phrase “sons of God” (Hebrew: bene ha’elohim) is never used for men — it always refers to angelic beings.
Job 1:6 – “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.”
Job 38:7 – “…when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”
In Hebrew usage, bene ha’elohim never refers to human males until much later metaphorical usage in the New Testament (i.e., those born again in Christ).
In Genesis 6, it refers to divine, supernatural beings — angels — not Seth’s descendants.
2. "If angels could procreate, why would God make them that way?"
God also gave mankind free will — that doesn’t mean He caused the Fall.
The Watchers sinned by violating their created boundaries — not by obeying God's design, but by rebelling against it.
Jude 1:6–7 – “And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling... just as Sodom and Gomorrah... indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire…”
2 Peter 2:4 – “God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into Tartarus…”
This is not about normal human corruption. These angels "left their estate" — their domain — to do something unnatural: take wives and produce offspring. That’s the entire context of their judgment.
3. "Nephilim were just large men, like Goliath or Andre the Giant."
Then explain why God sent a global flood just to wipe out "tall guys."
Or why these “large men” had semi-divine fathers, as the text literally says:
Genesis 6:4 – “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days — and also afterward — when the sons of God went in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”
The text doesn’t say they were just tall. It says they were born from a union between supernatural beings and women.
Also, Goliath is descended from the Rephaim/Anakim, who themselves were remnants of this hybrid line (Numbers 13:33). That’s not debunking the angelic-human hybrid interpretation — it confirms it.
4. “They lived longer before the flood, so they were just naturally bigger.”
This is speculation with zero textual support.
Genesis doesn’t say “everyone was a giant” — it says the Nephilim were the result of a specific event: the sons of God taking wives and bearing children.
Also, Noah wasn't a giant. Nor were his sons. The Ark was measured in cubits based on normal-sized humans.
5. “Enoch and Jude are irrelevant.”
Jude quotes Enoch word-for-word and ties it directly to the angels that sinned in Genesis 6.
The early church fathers — Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian — all accepted the angelic interpretation and the Book of Enoch as historically valid.
It wasn’t until St. Augustine of Hippo (4th–5th century AD), writing under the rising influence of Imperial Roman theology, that the “Sethite view” — the notion that the “sons of God” in Genesis 6 referred merely to the godly line of Seth intermarrying with the daughters of Cain — began to gain traction. This interpretation, while widely adopted in later Western Christendom, has no foundation in ancient Hebrew linguistics, Second Temple Jewish thought, early church exegesis, or intertestamental literature.
No respected Hebraist, Second Temple scholar, Dead Sea Scrolls expert, or patristic theologian prior to the 4th century held the Sethite view. In fact, the overwhelming consensus among:
the writers of 1 Enoch,
the scribes of Qumran,
the translators of the Septuagint,
the authors of Jubilees,
and the early church fathers such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Athenagoras, Tertullian, and Lactantius,
…was that the “sons of God” were angelic beings — the Watchers — who transgressed divine boundaries and mated with human women, producing hybrid offspring: the Nephilim.
Augustine’s reinterpretation was not rooted in the Hebrew text or ancient tradition — it was a philosophical compromise, influenced by Neoplatonism and a desire to demythologize the Genesis narrative in light of Greco-Roman sensibilities.
In short: the Sethite theory is a late, Western innovation — not the historic view of either Judaism or early Christianity.
Genesis 6 says what it says — and all the ancient Jewish and early Christian sources agreed:
The sons of God were angels,
The Nephilim were hybrid offspring,
And the whole situation was so corrupt and unnatural, God wiped it all out with the Flood.
Denying the supernatural in Genesis 6 isn’t interpretation.
It’s whitewashing a divine rebellion that the rest of Scripture repeatedly affirms.
There has been much conflicting arguments over these passages by the best of scholars. Let me further explain my view.
Job 1:6 "...the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan also came among them".
In contest, Job was just speaking of his sons in their occasional acts of sin during their feasts, and that He would afterword pray for them, ask for their forgiveness.
Satan is the accuser of the sons of God; but God picks out Job from all of them and challenges Satan.
Let's back up.
Vs. 4 "And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.
Job 38:7
God is questioning Job about his knowledge of the beginning ... and the end. The first three questions were about Creation and then, in God's timeless reality and mind, He jumps far into the future when the multitude in heaven ( John's vision in heaven of the sons of God) standing before God and the angels with shouts for joy over their salvation.
Job not only wasn't there during creation, but he hasn't a clue what God's overall Plan is, the end of the story.
It's not allegorical, it's a literal interpretation. Oh, and I suppose you knew them and their thoughts and all their writings? Lol.no ancient Jew, Second Temple writer, Qumran scribe, LXX translator, early Church Father, or New Testament author interpreted the ‘sons of God’ in Genesis 6 as humans.
It's not allegorical, it's a literal interpretation. Oh, and I suppose you knew them and their thoughts and all their writings? Lol.
I'm done, not much more to say. Believe what you will.
BTW, making up lies, trying to incorporate all scholarly knowledge into your view is just bs.
[Augustine and the reformers Luther and Calvin all agreed that the correct interpretation was that the “sons of God” referred to the lineage of Seth while the “daughters of man” referred to the lineage of Cain. ]
You said All Jewish and Christians scholars held this view. Now you are back peddling?“Oh, I suppose you knew them and their thoughts?”
No — I didn’t need to.
Their writings are still here.
And they’re crystal clear.
The Book of Enoch (written during the Second Temple period) explicitly names the “sons of God” as angels called the Watchers
The Qumran community (Dead Sea Scrolls) preserved and revered Enoch as authoritative — they didn't think it was about Seth
The Septuagint translators — the same men who rendered the Hebrew Bible into Greek — translated bene ha’elohim in Genesis 6:2 as "angels of God", not "sons of Seth"
Early Church Fathers like Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Athenagoras, Tertullian, and Lactantius all affirmed the angelic interpretation
Even Jude, in the New Testament, quotes Enoch verbatim and connects it to the angels that sinned
So no, I don’t need to know them personally. I read.
“Making up lies, trying to incorporate all scholarly knowledge into your view is just bs.”
That’s not “making up lies.”
That’s called historic consensus — until Augustine rewrote it to fit Rome’s evolving theology.
He rejected the supernatural reading because:
It didn’t fit his Neoplatonic worldview
It clashed with imperial respectability
And it made the Church hierarchy look a little too much like Babylon when you connect the dots
“Augustine and the Reformers agreed on the Sethite view.”
Exactly — and none of them were Second Temple Jews, Qumran scribes, Septuagint translators, or Apostolic-era believers.
They lived hundreds, or even thousands of years later, and based their view on philosophy, not Hebrew exegesis.
So yes, I believe the people closest to the text, the culture, and the language — not Roman theologians trying to make the Bible safer for an empire.
I've heard the Nephilim interpretation as the offspring of Angels and humans, and don't buy it
The Book of Enoch wasn’t excluded by God — it was excluded by Rome.
Why not directly educate satan
So....all this to say....it's completely not relevant and a waste of time.