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in Genesis chapter 6 it talks about the Nephilims were on earth before the flood then came back after the flood .Actually they were fallen angels ,that were giants in the eyes of the spies that were sent into the land of milk and honey.My question is who are they now and where are they?

2006-06-27 16:09:46 · 8 answers · asked by Dwayne S 1 in Society & Culture Mythology & Folklore

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That's actually a really interesting question, and I'm afraid I don't have much time to fully answer it, but I'll give you a basic overview.


Back when all the texts were compiled and what should (or not) be included in the New and Old Testaments was decided, some of the texts were left out.
While some were fully censored and destroyed (for example, the newly discovered "Gospel of Judas"), others were simply censored or adapted.
The existence of Nephilim was one of those situations, where the scriptures were slightly censored and therefore some rare references to generally unknown things can be read in there. Never heard of Lilith? That's another example of a removed text.

While in the link I'll provide below there is some information about your subject, you could also try to read the "Dead Sea Scrolls" or "Apocrypha", as they have some of the texts that were cut out and (perhaps) provide more information on Nephilim.

2006-06-27 16:20:23 · answer #1 · answered by felizmino213 3 · 6 2

The Nephilim which means those that were cast down were the old gods of myths, (one theory), ancient astronauts, (another theory), or fallen angels, (still another theory), that mated with human women and had offspring. This is apparently the reason for god sending the flood to kill mankind because of the interbreeding between the two different species.

However, in the ancient astronaut theory, the flood was caused by the melting ice caps in Antarctica which triggered a massive tsunami that caused the flood, (at the end of the ice-age). The leader of the aliens was aware that the flood would happen but didn't tell the humans so that they could be killed off because he was angry with the interbreeding.

Some claim that they were fallen angels but that is also
speculation in an attempt to clarify the passage in the bible. From what I know angels are spirituals beings and god would not have made them capable of having sex much less reproducing with humans. Some says they were fallen angels in the spiritual sense that went into the bodies of human men and had children with human women. This does not make sense, because the physical offspring of this union would be just plain more humans.


If you read the ancient Sumerian texts which are from what the story of Noah was derived, you will see they were called Annuanki, which means those to earth from heaven came.

They were the Sumerian gods and it is believed that they were either aliens that were worshipped as gods or that they were the original gods of myths and the gods of all other cultures were derived from them and given different names, (Greek/Roman, Egyptian etc.). It is believed that most religions originated from these texts and they have been proven to be the most ancient writings in existence.

Noah was allowed to survive the flood because of his perfect generations, (bloodline).

2006-06-28 02:40:32 · answer #2 · answered by cj 4 · 0 0

The Nephilim were either the "sons of god", who mated with human women, or the offspring of those unions, the Bible is not clear on that point. The Genesis chapter abruptly jumps from introducing them to talking about the wickedness of the world, the set-up to the Noah story. The idea seems to be that the wickedness comes about because of their presence, though this is a result of the placement of the two strands of story.

One Biblical scholar, a few years ago, came up with an etymology for the name, arguing that it means "those meant to die". It was in an issue of Biblical Archeology Review, as I recall. I remember him mentioning that there is another place in the Old Testament - one of the Samuels or Kings I think - where they are mentioned, although not in any English translation. The Masoretic Hebrew used same phrase. In that part of the text, the writer was referring to soldiers sent on a suicidal mission.

Nowhere are the Nephilim angels, fallen or otherwise. If your Bible says that, its a poor translation.

2006-06-27 16:46:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2016-08-31 09:48:27 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

This term is used by some UFO nuts to describe 'aliens'. They feel that the 'aliens' have been coming to Earth for a long time and the description of Nephilim and giants are actually refering to these and similar beings. I believe that they were forced to go into hiding under the Earth, like the lizard people who live beneath the earth who created the grey 'aliens' in the first place. The giants may be the Bigfoot, who the lizard people also created with their genetic engineering science. They are decendants of dinosaurs, so there science is millions of years ahead of ours.

2006-06-27 16:23:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

They are the Angels that God had created. Not much is really known. They had bred with human, then came the Giants(Goliath), but there were 4 others...not much known. All Beings exist on different plains of existance. We are in one, Deities in another, spirits in another. Just depends.

2006-06-28 15:00:02 · answer #6 · answered by celtic_majik_21 2 · 0 0

nephilim's fallen angels expelled from heaven for divulging forbidden knowledge to humans . those humans were women who the angels loved and had children with

2006-06-27 18:51:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

They all are gone to hell. God had em all killed when David slew Golith.

2006-06-27 16:27:00 · answer #8 · answered by Cabana C 4 · 0 0

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