The Old Testament tells us Humans and Demons had children Nephilim ? (Any thoughts)

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There’s lots of other ideas about who the Sons of God are besides angels. There’s some good posts about that on this thread.
 
GiftofMercy said:
Show me where in Sacred Scripture
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It’s in Genesis 6 where the Sons of God intermixed with human women. It’s probably the oddest passage in the whole Bible and found no where else.

My personal opinion is that this can possibly be also where the Greeks got all their stories of Zeus, Hercules, Medusa, etc…

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 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. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Genesis 6:1-4 NASB
 
EloyCraft said:
Sons of God are the descendants of Seth. Who began to invoke God. Daighters of men are descendants of Cain. Lamech seventh generation from Cain was the first polygamist.

Children of both cultures would be familiar with both cultures and that would be a great advantage since only they would know the whole of mankind. Hence, men of great renown. Giants
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I like this answer for “short & sweet.” Supported by many scripture references up thread. :+1:Makes a lot of sense on a passage I had not seen explained well until now.
 
GiftofMercy said:
This does not say Angels and humans had children
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It does say the Sons of God did. The million dollar question is who are the Sons of God? We know for sure from the text that they are not humans. If not Angels them what are they? Now the Sumerians might answer this question but it goes outside the bounds of all Christian theology.
 
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EvangelistVictor said:
The million dollar question is who are the Sons of God?
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EDIT: Better answer from Haydock’s bible commentary on Genesis 2:2
The sons of God. The descendants of Seth and Enos are here called Sons of God, from their religion and piety: whereas the ungodly race of Cain, who by their carnal affections lay grovelling upon the earth, are called the children of men. The unhappy consequence of the former marrying with the latter, ought to be a warning to Christians to be very circumspect in their marriages; and not to suffer themselves to be determined in choice by their carnal passion, to the prejudice of virtue or religion. Ch. — See S. Chrys. hom. 22, &c. Some copies of the Sept. having the angels of God, induced some of the ancients to suppose, that these spiritual beings (to whom, by another mistake, they attributed a sort of aerial bodies) had commerce with women, as the pagans derived their heroes from a mortal and a god. But this notion, which is borrowed from the book of Henoch, is quite exploded. C. — The distinction of the true Church from the synagogue of satan, here established, has been ever since retained, as heretics are still distinguished from Catholics. W. S. Aug.
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Crocus said:
Posters above have gone into great detail about how it is not possible for a spiritual non bodied being to procreate with a bodied being.
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With this logic you would then deny the Virgin birth of Christ! How then was Mary impregnated if not but by the divine!
 
Your comment is off topic about Mary.

Spiritual non bodied beings were created by God. They do not have procreative powers as do human beings (also briefly mentioned in Haydock’s above).
 
St. Augustine, Chrysostom, and Cyril of Alexandria suggested that the “sons of God” may refer to righteous descendants (men) of Seth who took descendants (women) of Cain as wives.
 
Crocus said:
Your comment is off topic about Mary.

Spiritual non bodied beings were created by God. They do not have procreative powers as do human beings (also briefly mentioned in Haydock’s above).
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How so? Mary was miraculously impregnated by the Holy Spirit as a Virgin.

Now I’ve read about the teaching that the Sons of God came from the line of Seth. But there isn’t any biblical evidence to back this up.

Now how about the giant Nephilim? The Israelites said they were as tall as grasshoppers compared to them. Some say 20ft tall or bigger.
 
EvangelistVictor said:
Now I’ve read about the teaching that the Sons of God came from the line of Seth. But there isn’t any biblical evidence to back this up.
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Catholics revere Scripture as well as its source (Tradition), as well as its appointed interpreter (the Magisterium).

Catholic Answers gives some comment referencing the ECF, on the Sons of God in the article linked below.
EvangelistVictor said:
Now how about the giant Nephilim? The Israelites said they were as tall as grasshoppers compared to them. Some say 20ft tall or bigger.
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Hyperbole? An overstatement to make a point, does not make it any less true. Scott Hahn offers a plausible solution IMO:
Nephilim can also be translated as “tyrants,” violent men who want to make a name for themselves and will do whatever it takes to achieve it.
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Crocus said:
Hyperbole? An overstatement to make a point, does not make it any less true. Scott Hahn offers a plausible solution IMO:
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Not necessarily,

Deuteronomy 3:11 states:
Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remaining Rephaites. (It is noteworthy that his sarcophagus was made of iron. Does it not, indeed, still remain in Rabbath of the Ammonites? It is thirteen and a half feet long and six feet wide according to standard measure.)
 
:crazy_face:🤣 No you are not suggesting they had to make it that big to accommodate the massive size of his body.
 
If what Moses is saying is true, then there’s no reason to discount the fact that the Nephiim were giants.
 
C.Longinus said:
If what Moses is saying is true, then there’s no reason to discount the fact that the Nephiim were giants.
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Moses gave the dimensions of the sarcophagus. We can only conclude King Og of Bashan was smaller than that in size.
But it was I who annihilated the Am′or·ite before them, Who was as tall as the cedars and as strong as the oaks;I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below. (Amos 2:9)
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Opinions vary on what kind of giants the Nephilim were.
 
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C.Longinus said:
If what Moses is saying is true, then there’s no reason to discount the fact that the Nephiim were giants.
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They were giants. But some secularist scholars in both Catholic and Protestant circles want to disprove the miraculous of the Bible. In these two groups they even deny the existence of hell.
 
EvangelistVictor said:
It does say the Sons of God did. The million dollar question is who are the Sons of God?
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We really know nothing about who they are. We do know that a Son of God would not be referred to as a demon in the Hebrew Bible. During those times demons and satan were not on the radar, satan was the name for ‘an adversary’

This is something I am sure we will find out when we get to heaven 🙂
 
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