The Book of Beginnings

Studies in Genesis

Lesson 29 : Genesis 5:1–6:8 – The Book of the History of Adam – part 3

ELEVENTH PARAGRAPH: THE SONS OF GOD AND THE DAUGHTER OF MEN – THESE VERSES ARE PART OF THE ADAMIC GENEALOGY TOLEDOTH – A POLEMIC AGAINST ANCIENT MYTHS – THREE OPINIONS OF 6:1-4 – THE ‘SONS OF GOD’ WERE FALLEN ANGELS – THE ‘SONS OF GOD’ WERE HUMAN JUDGES OR RULERS – THE ‘SONS OF GOD’ WERE THE GODLY LINE OF SETH THAT INTERMARRIED WITH THE UNGODLY LINE OF CAIN – WHAT DO THE COMMENTATORS I AM USING TEACH? – GENERAL REASONS FOR GEN 6:1-4 TO BE REFERRING TO THE ‘LINE OF SETH’ – THE REASON GIVEN FOR THE FLOOD IS THE SINS OF MEN, NOT ANGELS – IF ANGELS, WHY NOT USE THE NORMAL TERMS FOR ‘ANGELS’? – NOWHERE DO ANGELS PROCREATE – THE NT SPEAKS OF GOD ‘PATIENTLY WAITING’ FOR REPENTANCE, BUT NOWHERE IN SCRIPTURE DOES GOD OFFER REPENTANCE TO ANGELS – OTHER NT PASSAGES PROVIDE NO SUPPORT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER – THE ‘SONS OF GOD’ ARE ALSO USED TO REFER TO MEN IN THE OT – ‘SONS OF GOD’ COULD MEAN ‘GODLY SONS’ – ‘DAUGHTERS OF MEN’ AS AN ANTITHESIS OF ‘SONS OF MEN’ DOES NOT DEMAND THE ‘SONS OF GOD’ WERE NOT HUMAN – GENESIS ALREADY DIVIDES THE LINES OF CAIN AND SETH – THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ‘THE SONS OF GOD’ AND ‘THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN’ WERE NOT RAPE NOR FORNICATION BUT RATHER MARRIAGES – THIS SIN IS NOT UNIQUE TO THE ANTEDILUVIANS IN THE OT – WHILE THERE ARE APOCRYPHAL WORKS ASCRIBING THE FLOOD TO THE SIN OF FALLEN ANGELS (E.G., ‘THE BOOK OF ENOCH’), THERE ARE ALSO APOCRYPHAL WORKS ASCRIBING THE SIN TO MEN ALONE – THERE WERE ‘NEPHILIM’ BEFORE THE ‘SONS OF GOD’ COHABITED WITH THE ‘WOMEN OF MEN’ – WERE THESE ‘NEPHILIM’ THE OFFSPRING OF FALLEN ANGELS? – EXPOSITION OF GEN 6:1-4 – NOAH WAS NOT BUILDING THE ARK FOR 120 YEARS – THE NEPHILIM WORD MEANING – THE ‘NEPHILIM’ WAS DESCRIPTIVE OF GREAT, WICKED WARRIORS