Are the Nephilim Aliens?

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I was watching a program on GOD TV the other day, and there was a program on the End Times and this man called Chuck Missler was on, he is an Evangelical, and he believes that the Nephilim mentioned in the Bible are aliens or fallen angels of some kind who intermixed with women and have created hybrids.

He also talked about some kind of giants?

I know for some conspiracy theorists, they use the Nephilim verses in the Bible as one of the proofs or evidences for the ‘‘Reptilian’’ conspiracy theory.

I beleive this is what Chuck Missler believes, the products of fallen angels who left their abode and came and bred with the daughters of men.

Is there any truth in the Nephilim meaning aliens? Or fallen angels intermixing with women to create hybrids?
 
I’ll ask next time I see one:p. I believe in some conspiracy theories but this one I don’t although it does seem to be gathering momentum. When they start using buzzwords such as Merovingian Blood Line/George Bush/Race of Lizards/. The face changes from :eek: to :rolleyes:.
 
I watch “Ancient Aliens” and I heard the same argument, about how angels are actually misidentified aliens, and that they bred with humans to produce giants like Goliath. The Bible verse they’re talking about is:
“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. …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,” Genesis 6:1-2,4
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It makes it sound like these “sons of God” could be something other than human men, but Adam was called the a son of God (Luke 3:38), Paul called us “sons of God” (Romans 8:14), and John identified as a son of God (1 John 3:2) .

I think that, like every interpretation of the Bible, translation has a lot to do with it. Nephilim was rendered as “fallen”, but could also have been “feller” which meant tyrant or bully. Also, Nephilim was written as “gegantes” in Greek, which looks an aweful lot like giants, but would have been “Titan” in translation. (resource). I have do do some more looking into it, but when I hear talk of giants I always think of really big intimidating people (like the Vikings), and that would have fit with the bully/tyrant translation.

I like the show (and the topic) just because it makes me study my bible more, but I can’t say I actually think Angels are the kind of aliens that fly around in UFO’s (though, I s’pose they could be considered alien, since they aren’t of this world?).
 
Abyssinia said:
I was watching a program on GOD TV the other day, and there was a program on the End Times and this man called Chuck Missler was on, he is an Evangelical, and he believes that the Nephilim mentioned in the Bible are aliens or fallen angels of some kind who intermixed with women and have created hybrids.

He also talked about some kind of giants?

I know for some conspiracy theorists, they use the Nephilim verses in the Bible as one of the proofs or evidences for the ‘‘Reptilian’’ conspiracy theory.

I beleive this is what Chuck Missler believes, the products of fallen angels who left their abode and came and bred with the daughters of men.

Is there any truth in the Nephilim meaning aliens? Or fallen angels intermixing with women to create hybrids?

Stop being ridiculous!! I assume you must be a kid to ask a stupid question like that!
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thistle said:
Abyssinia;7357068:
I was watching a program on GOD TV the other day, and there was a program on the End Times and this man called Chuck Missler was on, he is an Evangelical, and he believes that the Nephilim mentioned in the Bible are aliens or fallen angels of some kind who intermixed with women and have created hybrids.

He also talked about some kind of giants?

I know for some conspiracy theorists, they use the Nephilim verses in the Bible as one of the proofs or evidences for the ‘‘Reptilian’’ conspiracy theory.

I beleive this is what Chuck Missler believes, the products of fallen angels who left their abode and came and bred with the daughters of men.

Is there any truth in the Nephilim meaning aliens? Or fallen angels intermixing with women to create hybrids?
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Stop being ridiculous!! I assume you must be a kid to ask a stupid question like that!

:rotfl::rotfl: oh thistle - you have made me laugh out loud.

I couldn’t possily get away with making this comment. CAF would be all over me. 😃

I only have a few zingers that I can use before I get the boot from CAF…so I use them wisely.

God bless you Thistle.
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thistle said:
Stop being ridiculous!! I assume you must be a kid to ask a stupid question like that!
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Conduct rule #1: Messages posted to this board must be polite and free of personal attacks, threats, and crude or sexually-explicit language, rude comments and innuendo.

To the OP: Most Catholics here try to be good representatives of the faith. We welcome your questions and will try to answer them to the best of our ability. Please do not be intimidated or ashamed to ask question, even when faced with violations of forum rules like this one. Here is a link from EWTN which you might find helpful.
 
Prayer_Warrior said:
Conduct rule #1: Messages posted to this board must be polite and free of personal attacks, threats, and crude or sexually-explicit language, rude comments and innuendo.

To the OP: Most Catholics here try to be good representatives of the faith. We welcome your questions and will try to answer them to the best of our ability. Please do not be intimidated or ashamed to ask question, even when faced with violations of forum rules like this one. Here is a link from EWTN which you might find helpful.
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These forums should not be used to discuss the absolute absurd!!!
Aliens and hybrids?? Give us a break. It is simply plain silly to discuss something like this. It has nothing to do with our faith.
There should be some software to detect silly things and delete them before a thread can start!!
If this is the sort of rubbish that people think is okay to talk about here then these forums will have gone way down in my eyes!
 
Perhaps the OP doesn’t know what the Church teaching is regarding aliens. Perhaps the OP is indeed a young kid searching for the truth. In both cases, you gave an answer that would be offensive to almost any adult and could damage a young persons faith journey.

If the mods think it is too silly, they have the right to delete or close the thread.

As far as I’m concerned, everything that is contained in scripture has to do with our faith. Nephilim are part of the scriptures. If a Catholic has heard an evangelical that has some weird take on what Nephilim are, then it is our duty to correct error and instruct the ignorant–another part of our faith, by the way. To do so using the words “stupid” “rubbish” “silly” etc is counter productive and in my opinion, it is a forum violation.
 
Prayer_Warrior said:
Perhaps the OP doesn’t know what the Church teaching is regarding aliens. Perhaps the OP is indeed a young kid searching for the truth. In both cases, you gave an answer that would be offensive to almost any adult and could damage a young persons faith journey.

If the mods think it is too silly, they have the right to delete or close the thread.

As far as I’m concerned, everything that is contained in scripture has to do with our faith. Nephilim are part of the scriptures. If a Catholic has heard an evangelical that has some weird take on what Nephilim are, then it is our duty to correct error and instruct the ignorant–another part of our faith, by the way. To do so using the words “stupid” “rubbish” “silly” etc is counter productive and in my opinion, it is a forum violation.
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Rubbish!!!
 
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Okay, several posts have been deleted and I would like to take this opportunity to refresh your minds as to how to deal with anything that violates the the rules and guidelines found in this link.

Notice please, that dragging the thread off topic with personal comments is not listed there.

Charity in all things guys…
Very sincerely,
 
I agree that it is a misinterpretation of the word" Nephilim" . In Hebrew it has two spellings . You need to look at the root of the word ,which means " fallen ones " or "fallible ones ". In hebrew the phrase “those who fall upon” has nothing to do with falling from heaven or the sky. It is an expression for going to war or fighting in battle . So the Nephilim where warriors .Although they were probably larger in stature than the jews , the Nephilims were not giants ,demons ,angels or aliens .😉
 
Genesis 6 indicates that the “sons of God” (B’nai Elohim) took wives of the “daughters of men,” which gave birth to the “Nephilim.” What on earth was going on?

The B’nai Elohim is a term that refers to angels. It occurs four times in the Old Testament 2 and is rendered “Angels of God” in the ancient Septuagin translation.3 The intrusion of certain angels into the human family resulted in unnatural offspring termed Nephilim, which derives from the Hebrew naphal (to fall), or the Fallen Ones. (The Greek Septuagint renders this term gigantes, which actually means “earth-born.” This is often misunderstood to mean “giants”–which they also happen to have been, incidentally.)

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jeinhorrics said:
Genesis 6 indicates that the “sons of God” (B’nai Elohim) took wives of the “daughters of men,” which gave birth to the “Nephilim.” What on earth was going on?

The B’nai Elohim is a term that refers to angels. It occurs four times in the Old Testament 2 and is rendered “Angels of God” in the ancient Septuagin translation.3 The intrusion of certain angels into the human family resulted in unnatural offspring termed Nephilim, which derives from the Hebrew naphal (to fall), or the Fallen Ones. (The Greek Septuagint renders this term gigantes, which actually means “earth-born.” This is often misunderstood to mean “giants”–which they also happen to have been, incidentally.)

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All that (except for the cosmetic medical training links) is what the television shows are saying. I guess it depends on what language, dialect, context, etc… everything was actually written in.
 
Genesis
6:1 When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 6:2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose. 6:3 Then the LORD said, “My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.” 6:4 The Nephilim were 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. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

St. Augustine, Chrysostom, and Cyril of Alexandria thought the “sons of God” might be the righteous descendants (men) of Seth who took descendants (women) of Cain as wives. So, “sons of God” associates the men with the goodness of God whereas “daughters of men” would be intended as a contrast to this.

This is was customary of the ancient Semitic expressions/language at that time. Knowing the background of Cain as a killer and the bad blood of his descendants, they could have been regarded in a negative light, which unions led to a situation in which humanity was corrupted and unacceptable to God. The word “Nephalim” literally means “fallen ones” which would be consistent with an interpretation that views this group as a corrupt mixture of good and bad blood.

There’s a number of websites that try to prove that they’re aliens due to these passages… and there’s also commentators that interpret the scripture as the fallen angels having sexual unions with women.
 
Again, it’s all in th interpretation and which bible your reading from. Be it the King James, Hebrew, or Catholic version’s . Different bibles , different laungages,different times you are going to get different interpretation’s. For example the verse " you shall not suffer a witch to live “, at the time it was written a " witch” was someone that poisened people . Today the word “witch” brings into mind all kinds of images .
I think each person has to read and reread the passages, ask God to help you to properly understand it and go with what you know in your heart to be true.
 
I read that some early Church Fathers agreed with the explanation that nHisLightnLove gave, and others thought the Nephilim came from demons and humans…

as for how this could possibly work, well there have been cases in the lives of the Saints where demons took on physical forms, maybe this would be similar ?

I’ve wondered the same thing…
 
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