Discuss Genesis 6 Page 27

There is always a reason for everything God does, and giving a 120 yrs reprieve before judgement was passed upon man and all life destroyed, gave Noah time to build the ark, but could the 120 years also refer to time allocated until our final judgement? Let me explain, a jubalee is a time of renewal and forgiveness or a new beginning, and a jubalee is once every 50 years, so could it be that mans allotted time before Christ returns be 120 jubalees, or 6000 years? He said we don't know the day or the hour, only the Father knows but those who are Christians would know the time or season of his return, and we are actually in the 120th jubalee which ends 2023 on the feast of trumpets.

That is not mean that angels have a sexual relationships with human beings as commented above.but when Adam and Eve had ceased the paradise ,they had tricked by the evil spirit.and also there was disobedience during Noah time.so that the God decides to limit the age of human being.as the spirit of the God translates for me, the husband is the Yolk of sin and the beautiful girls are humanbeings who the God creates in resemblance of himself!!!!juda number 6

This was a good verse.

this was a good verse

My understanding of Sons of God mentioned in this chapter is generation or lineage from Seth and daughters of men are from Cain. I don't think angels had sexual relationships with human beings and produced GIANTS! We should try to understand certain thinks in the bible with spiritual understanding not literally or carnally. This is just my thought not to offend anyone.Glory to God!

If you look up the word "Giants" it means brute or tyrant. Before & after this scripture God talks about the nature of man & what he thinks about him, so maybe giant could mean someone that wants power & control over others.

Q: Why was Cain aloud to continue as a bloodline but not the giants? It's my understanding that when Eve partook of satan in the garden he was in his spiritual body, wouldn't this make Cain a hybrid like the giants? And yet we know that the kenites still live to this day..?

Watch the names of the children. Satans kenites from Cain`s naming are real close to the naming of the good children. Kind of reminds me of satan calling himself lucifer meaning morning star. We only have One Morning Star and that's Our Lord. Satans such a thief. As far as Noahs family and blood there was no blimish. In 6:9 perfect mean petagree or pure perfect blood line. Also reading about the Eden the garden of God in Ezekiel 28:13 where its talking about satan being there we see another one of his names, prince of Tyrus, means little rock. But reading it and seeing how much he had, he was the covering cherub and was the one who guarded Gods Mercy Seat. Michael holds him now until he let's go and boots him to earth so all 3 Michael, Gabriel, and lucifer must be really powerfull. God controlls the Universe, I know he set the plannets in motion so they can take cared of themselves but if He made the Ark Angels powerfull and almost to the full pattern. That's a lot of power. Satan can dsiquise himself. Its said trasform in the word but it means disquise so maybe Adam didn't know he was or satan was a man and saw a woman. Just thinking of the word.in Ez. 28:18 it tells you satans been sentence to death and how its going to happen. A fire from with in to out. Burned up. That must be hell. The seperation from the sheep and goats is going to happen after the Great White Throne Judgment and Goe seperates and the goats burn up and then our minds are erased so there is no tears in heaven. Gone!

These angles left their estate (heaven) came down from heaven and TOOK the daughters of men and children were born (meaning very tall and strong) these are considered the fallen angles the third that fell with satan.

God never said that angles did not have a specific sex, He merely said that they did not marry. Read you Bible. The angels did have sexual relationships with woman and thus created the Nephilim, the giants of old, men of renown. It was because of this pollution to the DNA of humans that God had to destroy His creation. Only Noah and his family did not allow their DNA to be corrupted. Try reading the book of Enoch to which Jesus Himself refers, and you will learn the whole truth about those days. Also, prepare yourself because Jesus said, "As in the days of Noah, so shall be the coming the Son of Man be....

It's me again, I meant the kingship descended upon earth before the flood and after!

In Genesis chapter 1-Beasts of the earth(Dinosaurs)and in chapter 2-beasts of the field(mammals of today). In Genesis 6 vs 4; were the fallen angels who fornicated with the daughters of men and procreated GIANTS.In the Septuagint Bible it reads, and they bore them children, these were the giants of old, men of renown. In the Sumerian King's list, the kingship ascended before the flood and after, therfore twice did fallen angels descend upon earth and commited the same sin which equalled the Rephaim after the flood, but, in the book of Enoch,towards the last chapter, it reads that Noah's posterity would produce giants of carnel flesh which equalled the caananites, the amorites etc....etc....

To, Denard

You may want to check out Jude, and read up what it says angles actually did, and where they will be sent to. Also, angles did, according to the scriptures have come down many times back then, and took coporeal human like forms. they were suboordinate to God's will, but any rebellious ones would not be on the same accord. I mean Jacob wrestled with the angel (I think thats who) and then men who were in Sodom tried to gang rape the two angles that came to sojurn with Lot.

This says angels had sex with human women in Earth and their offspring were called Nephilim- like giants, who possibly became Philistines and were mentioned in Numbers 13:33 as inhabiting Canaan.

Interesting how verse 3 says man's age will be limited to 120 years and thousands of years later with all of man's innovations in science and health, it still holds true. The oldest people in the world live to be right around 120.

We can rule the half angel and half humans out because God say that angels do not have sex. Besides angels would not be able to reproduce with humans anymore then a rabbit can reproduce with a snake and create half snake half rabbit hybird.
I often wonder what God mean't by giants in the earth in those days. Wanted to ask harold camping that but never got a chance. Insects were bigger and rabbits where 6ft tall so maybe humans could the been 10-12ft tall back then making them giants. Since being that tall was normole noah could the been 12ft and not felt like a giant if everybody eles was that big. Preflood eviroment was diffrent. Maybe people grew smaller after the flood. it may have when down to 9ft, 8ft 7ft until our current average.

Passages like these referring to the sons of God are difficult to understand. There really is no possibility of any definitive resolutions to the questions this chapter in Genesis raises. There simply isn't enough information in the Bible itself to do so.

Yea, just to through my own 1/2 cent in there...it also helps to be able to read and speak hebrew, and latin. There are many synonyms that they use, which when translated to english have two COMPLETLY different meanings, or are similar, but different. My best example is when the Holy spirit came in and gave teh disciples power. In that passage it talks aobut different "kinds" of power where as Jesus had Power, the disciples recived a different kind of power a "power to do things" its really hard to explain, but i learned of it only through latin. Think of it as meaning power=the ablility to do work, and Power=Authoritative power(like a judges power). Anyway i digress to my original 1/2 cent. If you take the hebrew literally of the name Micheal, it translates to " Who is like God?" important to take into the fact that it ends in a question mark.

If you really want to know about the Giants look in youtube for Giants Found and you will see that these men were/are real and actually existed! God reveals to man thru the Holy Spirit and men wrote it down for the future generations of childrens yet unborn. Praise God! God is TRUTH!!

everything the bible said happened, really happened!

sorry, jennifer, both you and wesley are way off. do you know the only reason that interpretation was used was because people just found it too incredible? but isnt the Bible filled with the incredible? angels were not supposed to, but these were FALLEN angels, who were attempting to contaminate the human bloodline and stave off the birth of Jesus. you'll notice that noah is described as "perfect in his generations", meaning exactly what it says, his bloodline was not polluted. even jude 1:6-7 says 6 "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire". so yes angels are not supposed to have sex w/ humans but these guys did and were punished. the "myths" of zeus, apollo, and hercules were all true. the fallen angels claimed to be gods and the people worshipped them. the giants were called "heroes, men of renown". nothing i say is unBiblical. the Bible doesnt get into it but the inferences are there. the book of enoch is more descriptive. the book of enoch is considered apochrapal because of its subject matter and was taken out of the Bible by the catholic church. but several copies of the book of enoch were found w/ the Dead Sea Scrolls.

I believe that the "sons of God" in Genesis 6 were fallen angels. One reason why is because angels are called "sons of God" in Job 1:6, 2:1 38:7, plus it says in 2 Peter 2:4, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment"
What was their sin? It couldn't have been the sin of rebellion, because otherwise, all the fallen angels would be in hell, and we know that they are not. Only some of the fallen angels married women of the earth and sired children who ended up being giants, and that was the sin that 2 Peter 2:4 is talking about, and Jude 6 speaks more about that sin, it speaks of angels that kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation. A group of fallen angels did not keep their first estate, but left it to come down to earth and either took on human form or possessed the bodys of earth men and mated with earth women, and the result was a race of giants, and that was the sin that 2 Peter 2:4 and Jude 6 is talking about. If "sons of God" in Genesis 6 were the line of seth or just men in general, why does it use the word "men" then "sons of God" if men and sons of God both refer to men? The word "men" is in verse 1, and "sons of God" and "men" are in verse 2. "sons of God" and "men" are in verse 4. "sons of God" and "men" must be two different types of beings, otherwise, why not just use the word "men" instead of "sons of God" as well?

If the sons of God were the godly line of Seth who were unequally yoked together with the ungodly daughters of Cain, I doubt that that would cause their offspring to be giants. They were giant in size because in Numbers 13:33 it says, "And there we saw the giants {nephelim in Hebrew} and it goes on to say, "and we were in our own sight grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. So the nephelim in Gen. 6 must have been giant is size just like the nephelim in Numbers 13, and something happened to make them giant sized, and it could not have been because of godly men marrying ungodly women. Something else went on to make them giants, and that was the unnatural union between angels and earth women who married and had sex.

I like Butch's statement about the use of the word renown, if taken by the meaning of the word it leaves the impression that they/are good which they were not it seems.

Joe! Who told you that angels are sexless? Read the book of Jude and learn about the angels who had left their first estate. I personally know of demon oppressed people who have been sexually molested by demons, while lying in bed next to their husbands. The scripture is accurate.

Personally i feel i am unable to firmly grasp the concept of this passage i have read several times over and am unable to find anything about the fallen angels. I have read about the giants however but again do not fully understand the gravity with which this passage holds if anyone can shed some light on this it would be very much appreciated.

I am thinking of God's promise, and how He fulfills His promise

Wesley did just fine explaining this verse. Angels have never in scripture, or other wise, had sexual relations...

Love this Chapter. Not only did the angels find a way to produce a hybrid being, they taught humans heavenly secrets and understandings. Fallen angels didn't account for humans being just that, Human and that God's word was, is and always shall be. It will be and be and be. Then include you through grace and be some more. Anyhow, Part angel part human, where do they go when you die? Nowhere! Confined to the earth where they will hunger, thirst and have no rest. Demons. We know what's up. We don't know the behind the scenes part of the story. What really went down that would cause there to be room in heaven and that evil should try and prevent any one human at all, from getting there?

I don't know ,but I think the angels do they are masculine in gender, but they are sexless, how could it they be married with human? I need to study more about these verse.

this passage speaks of the giants born of the unholy union of fallen angels and human women. "in the earth in those days, and after that" means that before the Flood, these beings were rampant on the earth. after the Flood destroyed them however, it sounds like there was ANOTHER incursion to earth by fallen angels and again they sired these evil deformed giants that were an abomination in the eyes of God. "mighty men which were of old, men of reknown" is NOT a compliment. its meant to convey the giants strength and their pride in their strength.

ralph, dinosaurs are mentioned in other passages (leviathan and behemoth) in the Bible but this passage is about the Nephilim, the fallen ones, that the fallen angels sired.