anyone have any clue what this verse means?

Question

Genesis 6
The Flood
1 "When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with [a] man forever, for he is mortal [b] ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. "

-------------------------------------------my father said 3 main possibilities that theologians believe are: angels had children with human women. Christian men had children with non-christian women. or they were a kind of giant that were wiped out after the flood

Answer 1

I believe they were disobedient angels usurping the Messiahs role, trying to prevent the seed of the woman (Jesus) from being born & crushing the serpents head & being victorious over death. They messed things up so much that God repented the creation of mankind & flooded the earth. Some believe that the demons are the offspring of these fallen angels.

Notice that they were called sons of God. Jesus Christ came years later, & Is the Only Begotten Son of God. Though satan tried to kill the new born King by having Herod order the murder of many children born at the time of Christs birth.

Answer 2

Firstly, the english bible you're using has this word "nephilim"
in verse number 4.
Because nobody has any "original" or "early" manuscript any
where at all, I think this obviously Jewish word is a little out of
place.
This english bible quoted above has nonsense. The term
"heroes" is a partly Greek term that didn't come into mass
use until 18th, 19 century. Whoever edited this "version"
doesn't understand english.
The word "will" means one has a choice. To say that man "will"
live 120 years is not true. God didn't give any one on earth
a choice. The word "shall" of the old english bible is correct.

No angels were having children with women. It doesn't say that.
Christian men did have children with non-Christian women a
few times.
The giants were on the earth in those days because that's what
every old bible says.

Answer 3

Here is one of the things that is not clear anywhere in the Bible.

Here are the verses that talk about "the sons of God" in the Old Testament.

Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Genesis 6:4
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.
Job 1:6
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
Job 2:1
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.

In the New Testament, "sons of God" is a different phrase that indicates Christians as children of God.

In the OT, Gen and Job both seem to indicate that these were fallen angels. In the Hebrew, the term that is given as "Nephilim" where it is not used as above, the term indicates those who have fallen, either in death as in Joshua 8:25; or in sin Psalm 145:14; or else were taken into captivity Jeremiah 39:9.

The term is ambiguous enough that anything we say definitively is subject to challenge. But in each case, the term is not positive, and is ominous.

Answer 4

Very good question.

In Job 1:6 and 2:1 we encounter the expression "the sons of God" referring to angels gathered in front of God. For example 1:6 in the American Standard Version it is rendered:

"Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them."

In Job 38:7 again we read that as God created earth the "morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy" American Standard Version.

In Genesis 6:2 "the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose." are angels that did not keep their positions and wanted to generate a human posterity so that they could rule mankind.

The bad fruits of such union became evident when their offspring became bullies and acted very violently with their fellow human. They became known as the Nephilims (literally fellers; Those Who Cause [Others] to Fall Down].

They became men of renown because of their violence and the reputation they had. Some biblists think that the false babylonian and greek gods originate from the renown Nephilims.

The expression "his days will be a hundred and twenty years" is the number of years left for men to get to know God before the deluge. This gave Noah ample time to contruct the arch.

Notice the passage of Jude 6 where those sons of God are cited as bad example:

"And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."

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Answer 5

According to the Bhagavad-Gita, the sons of God are demi-gods, beings of a higher consciousness, but not equal to God. They serve God, and interact with the material world on His behalf. Some demi-gods were attracted to the material world and became attached to it, taking wives and begetting children. The Greek pantheon is related to this story. The lifespan of 120 years began 5000 years ago, as the age of Kali, or quarrel began. Before this age was another age, in which people lived a thousand years, before that age 10,000 years. The nephilim were a race of giants. Goliath was one giant. There are stories in other cultures that describe giants. The epic of Gilgamesh predates the bible, and also describes giants and a flood. The Mahabharata also describes giants, demi-gods having mortal wives, and flood.

Answer 6

THE SONS OF GOD
That there was a fall of the angels is certain from Jude 6.
Jude 1:6 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.
The nature of their fall is clearly stated, they left their own “habitation” (oiketerion) in Greek, this word being used only one other place II Cor.5:2 where it is translated (spiritual) “house”.
The nature of their sin is stated to be “in like manner” to Sodom and Gomorrah Jude 7.
Jude 1:7 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.
The time of their fall is given “in the days of Noah”.
I Pet.3:19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; I Pet.3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
II Pet.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;
Their progeny, called (Nephilim) translated “giants”, were monsters of iniquity; and being superhuman in size and character, had to be destroyed. This was the one and only object of Noah’s deluge. Only Noah and his family had preserved their pedigree pure from Adam. All the rest of the Adamites had become corrupt.
It was God’s plan that from umbilical cord to umbilical cord would come Christ. Since God’s planting in Eden Satan and fallen angels have tried to disrupt this plan. This is the parable of the tares of the field.
Matt.13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; Matt.13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. Matt.13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. Matt.13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; Matt.13:42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matt.13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
A deep subject and this is only a brief version of the subject.

Wayne Murray

Answer 7

Fourth possibility. The giants/Nephillim were a aliens or a mix of alien human. There is no archaeological evidence of a world wide flood.
If you look up what the bible says about the height of Goliath you will realize that he was not much over 6 ft tall. I don't remember exactly how tall. There are a lot of tall people even now but it is different to be tall and bulky than tall and slim

Answer 8

I answered this question last night too! What a neat turn of events. To me it means that the angels had children with human women. I went and I researched this. In the Jewish text, the angels are referred to by a special name. In this passage, it refers to the sons of heaven by this same name. It is only the angels called that - never humans. That just confirms that the angels had babies with human women. I think it's fascinating!!!

Answer 9

I believe the first of the three is the correct one.
They were eventually wiped out, as in, David and Goliath.

(Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33, R.V.), giants, the Hebrew word left untranslated by the Revisers, the name of one of the Canaanitish tribes. The Revisers have, however, translated the Hebrew gibborim, in Gen. 6:4, "mighty men."

Answer 10

Angels had children with the daughters of men. Ever wonder where the giants (like Goliath) came from?