Nephilim
Gen 4 Birth of Cain
**1 And Adam knew Eve his wife: who conceived and brought forth Cain, saying: I have gotten a man through God. **
Cain was the first man born into sin. His mother’s statement at his birth reveals the state of her faith, her perception of her relationship with God and her child.
She recognizes her participation in the creation of man. Like God she is making man in her own image. " I have gotten a man".
God is a means by which the end was a ‘man’, the only man, like Adam once was.
Keep that perceptual environment in mind as the view of reality Cain is raised in. Consider the effect it has on Cain’s view of his relationship to God , his mother, father and eventually his decendants.
Here the power to create is divided into earthly and heavenly components with the power of fertility the end of the creative act and God as the means to that end. This is a mindset that forms a matriarchal culture.
This is the faith deeply rooted into Cain, the seed of which further developed in Cain’s line and decendents. This faith forms the mindset and culture in which they flourished.
Gen 4 Birth of Seth
25 Adam also knew his wife again: and she brought forth a son, and called his name Seth, saying: God hath given me another seed, for Abel whom Cain slew
Here it is plain that Seth is born into a new faith that is no longer disordered. Notice that the creative act isn’t divided but wholly rests in the graciousness of God. Also notice that Seth is to replace Abel who in the absence of Cain would have carried on the line of his father Adam. Perhaps that order enbodied in Abel is what God favored and why Cain murdered him. The new order is expressed in the following passage.
Gen 5
3** And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth. **
As with Cain this faith is the seed that develops in his line:
Gen 4,
**26 But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos; this man began to call upon the name of the Lord. **
This is the original faith of Adam that had not been extinguished by the deception of the serpent introduced through Eve, the light that had suffered a mortal wound but had recovered. This line of people are the People of God who’s message of salvation developed to the lofty heights of producing Enoch who’s body became a visible sign of what God had in mind for us in the beginning and at the same time it revealed visibly God’s plan of salvation.
This line from Seth represents a restoration of the image of Adam, image of the original man and concequently a restoration of the image of God on earth. They culture that results from them is patriarchal and called the People of God. The sons of God.
I’ve run out of time so I’ll sum up and continue later.
*The line of Seth are the Sons of God having established a holy patriarchal culture and the daughters of men are the line of Cain having established a matriarchal, idolatrous, polygamous culture. *
Sorry for not getting to how the sons of God generate the Nephilim through the daughters of men in this model but I will continue when I am able.
Peace
