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Genesis 6:1-4, Sons of God, Giants in the earth, (Nephilim) are not angles who had relations with daughters of men!

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Jude 1:6 does not sound like it is referring to the fall of the angels in general, but to a specific group of angels who are currently being reserved in punishment in everlasting chains of darkness UNTIL the day of judgement.
If you think about it, the Bible tells us that Satan will be punishment at the last day of Judgment, Revelation 20:10 KJV.

Second Peter sounds like the same angels in Jude 6.
2 Peter 2:4 KJV, “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;”

The angels in 2 Peter 2:4 KJV are reserved for punishment, satan and his angels are reserved for punishment. Why are these diffrent angels?
 
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That is no sound biblical reason. You cannot make that stretch with nothing backing up what is being said. Those angels thrown out of heaven abandoned their habitation. The fact satan and these angels with him commuted wickedness caused to loose what they had.

Look at what God told satan he had before he sinned and was cast out, Ezekiel 28:12-17 KJV. Now because Satan was cast out, are you saying he didn’t abandon these things.

Don’t the Bible tell us that when we sin we abandon God? Yes it does. Didn’t Jesus warn us not to abandon our first love? Yes he did.

So what’s going on is a play on words to put a square pegs in a round hole.
You're the one playing with words. Satan was cast out. It was not by his will. The Jude angels left of their own free will which means they were not fallen at the time. Satan and one third were cast out after their fall.
 
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You're the one playing with words. Satan was cast out. It was not by his will. The Jude angels left of their own free will which means they were not fallen at the time. Satan and one third were cast out after their fall.
Where are you finding your information, which scriptures?

What do you mean it was not of his will? Are you somehow excusing Satan? It was of his will to sin.
Nonetheless, God cast Satan out for his wickedness, so it was God’s will. Satan’s fall from righteousness led to his being cast out and one third of the angels that followed him. So when they decided to follow satan, they fell and were cast out with him.

There is no difference between “fall” and being “cast out,” as the result is the same with God.
 
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I’m not disputing that angels are also called the sons of God, however, the sons of God in Genesis 6 are not the angels. They are men, God’s creation on earth. Look at the genealogy of Jesus tracing all the way back to the creation of Adam being the son of God, Luke 3:38 KJV.

Adam was called a "son of God. " He was created SINLESS.

Adam was created in God's image. But, after the fall? Men were no longer said to be born in God's image.

Its only now during the Church age ( those who have become a new creation in Christ ) are to be called "children of God."


"Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name,
he gave the right to become children of God." John 1:12​
 
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I don’t know why you are using Galatians 3:28
The reason I'm using Galatians 3:28 is because both can't be equal in Christ if both aren't "the image of God"; because atonement for sin only applies to those who are created in God's image. There's no salvation plan for fallen angels; they are not material entities as carbon based life is. Thus the rest of the creation is also subject to the redemption plan because of the atonement.

Which angels not being "carbon based" raises an interesting question. Are they actually considered "life forms" or are they just considered some other sentient creation? Now there are "elect angels"; (1 Timothy 5:21). Now how exactly "election" applies to angels who never sinned; I'm not really sure, because election is related to atonement. Which atonement is reserved only for humans.
Woman did not have the original attributes, but man did, and from man she was created. Because of this, woman’s creation is based off of man’s creation. Woman was not created in the image of God. Man was created in the image of God. A woman’s attributes are based on what God had already given man.
Well the attributes of man and woman are actually the same. We are all accountable for our sin. Women are not intellectually inferior to men. All who are redeemed are atoned for as individuals. Christ was born of the seed of the woman. And thus he couldn't have atoned for the sin of men if women were not also included as "man made in God's image".

Look at Adam and Eve before the fall. The "man rule over woman" rule didn't come into play until after the fall. Which I think is why Paul says that in Christ there is no male and female. Both Adam and Eve had equal access to God prior to the fall. Now the interesting thing is in 1 Timothy 2:14 it talks about Eve being deceived but Adam was not. But the first thing Adam should have done was gone to God and said (the proverbial): "Houston we have a problem!" (And both of them should have gone to God as soon as they realized "Eh... we got a talking snake in this garden that's telling us to do bad stuff!"

Which makes me wonder how much Adam knew about the redemption plan (though the fall had not happened yet)? Did Adam know the penalty to make Eve "right" again would have required the shedding of blood; and would he have concluded that would have meant the shedding of his blood. Now obviously we know Adam could not atone for Eve's sin. Adam did not have a Divine nature; he'd never get out of the Lake of Fire. (He's not eternal.) We do know though that of what ever extent of the requirement for atonement Adam had been informed of; he was not deceived when he transgressed.

Yet on the front end of that; neither of the two of them carried out the first commandment that was given to them specifically. (To keep the garden.) The command to "keep the garden" is actually a military term. They were to fortify and protect it. Thus the question as to why neither went to God as soon as the disobedient talking snake showed up.

Again this is why In a marriage Jesus is the head of man, and man is the head of woman - this is based on the order man was created being that it was the man that was created in the image of God, whereas woman was made from man.

This is also why women are to wear a head covering during worship, and men don’t have to. Women are to have power over their head because of the angels, but men don’t have to have power over their heads because they are made in God’s image whereas women are made of man, 1 Corinthians 11:8-10 KJV.
Yet, when Paul declares in Galatians that both are equal in Christ; what does that mean in the parabolic representation of "Christ the head of man / man the head of woman"? Christ is the head of the bride; yet the bride of Christ isn't made up of strictly female humans.

So, there's a parabolic form going on here. 1 Corinthians 11:10 talks about women wearing head coverings "because of the angels". Now what does that mean? I'm not sure; I haven't studied that specific thing out. But the parabolic message is that the authority over the church is Christ. He's the "man" who "covers the head" of the bride. Now there's a lot of debate over what head coverings mean "her hair is given her for a covering". So does that mean that only women who are bald should wear head coverings? Which generally in society; that's what we see anyways. (Female cancer patients generally wear head coverings. They technically don't have to; but they generally do. Interesting!)

The spiritual symbolism of "the woman" not having her head covered means she's not atoned for. She (who claims to be the church) remains in rebellion against God. That's what that symbolism represents. Which probably has some application to angels being a witness to this because the angels who fell; did so before Adam and Eve did.

People are using the Greek language to translate the Bible when it has already been translated. I think this is absolutely wrong. If we are not Greek, don’t speak Greek, can’t write Greek, why are we using Greek to aid in our understanding of the Bible. Apostle Paul warns you about this.
Where does the Apostle Paul warn people about not using the original language? Most Jews in the days of Jesus didn't speak Hebrew; yet the Hebrew OT was used; and quoted in the NT. Now we could get into the differences between the Paleo-Hebrew text of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Masoretic text; but that's a whole other ball of wax!

Matter of fact it was probably pre-Tower of Babel "paleo-Hebrew" that was spoken by the apostles at Pentecost in the book of Acts. The language that all foreigners heard in their "tongue of origin". (Where did all human language originate from? What ever that language was that God had communicated to Adam in (from Adam to the tower of Babel) humanity all spoke one language.

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels..." Now is the "tongues" angels speak the original tongue God communicated to Adam in? That's a good question!

Note the Scripture talks about the gift of tongues ceasing but it doesn't say the interpretation of tongues will cease. Interesting, now why is that? (Because the Scripture is "spiritually discerned" and the translation of Scripture is still taking place.) No human language we have is an infallible translation of the Scripture. But the message is still adequately preserved that an accurate representation of the gospel can still be discerned in the human language of the Scripture. And thus because the Book is spiritually discerned; it's still infallible; despite the translations are not perfect. They don't have to be; because the Holy Spirit instructs the believer in the ascertainment of the truth.
Now the angel said that holy thing that shall be born of you, you have said based on the Greek language the angle meant stalk instead of born. And you have determined Mary’s stalk , that is her DNA was converted and cloned some sort of way. However, a baby takes the DNA of both parents. In this instance, God’s Holy seed (and we don know God’s DNA), and Mary’s egg which was fertilized causing her to conceive like all other women who conceive. There was no cloning involved.
Go look up all the words that root is translated as. "Stock" is one of them. "kind", "kindred", "offspring", "nation", "stock", "born" and "diversity"; are other translations of that root word. The first word in the list is the one that it's translated most often as. So Jesus was "of the kind" of Mary.

In the natural progression of conception; the child inherits roughly half of the DNA from the mother and roughly half of it from the father. But theoretically a female child could inherit up to 100% of the DNA from her mother. The reason for this possibility is that the egg already comes with the full compliment of chromosomes prior to fertilization. Humans have 46 chromosomes. An egg has 46 chromosomes. Once it is fertilized, a polar body is expelled of the excess DNA.

Well God is Spirit and male seed is a material thing. A spirit doesn't produce male seed. This is why demons can't make angelic human hybrids. (They don't have the ability to produce material seed. They aren't of the same "kind".) So thus God used "the seed of the woman" to "prepare a body" for Christ. And the fact that there was no male contribution; proved that Eve had to be created in God's image; because if she wasn't, the incarnation would not have been possible. Because the "seed of the woman" was the only material thing the Holy Spirit was working with.

We know from how children are conceived that the DNA of the parents serves as the blueprint of that process. So, it's certainly biologically correct to say that your child comes from your stock.

However we cannot say a woman child is her seed because the seed belongs to males.
Genesis 3:15. There is the "seed of men" and there is the "seed of women". They aren't the same; but women do have seed.

Matter of fact eggs are complete cells and contain all the cell organelles. (This is why you get all your messenger RNA from your mother.) The only thing sperm are made of is DNA, enzymes to breech the cell wall of the egg, mitochondria to propel the tale and a protein coat that holds the DNA inside the body of the sperm. Not even sure you can call sperm a cell per se? Although I believe they still are classified as "cells".
 
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Christ was born of the seed of the woman. And thus he couldn't have atoned for the sin of men if women were not also included as "man made in God's image".
Women do not posses a seed themselves, but they can give birth to male children that posses a seed. So what seed are you referring to?
 
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Where are you finding your information, which scriptures?

What do you mean it was not of his will? Are you somehow excusing Satan? It was of his will to sin.
Nonetheless, God cast Satan out for his wickedness, so it was God’s will. Satan’s fall from righteousness led to his being cast out and one third of the angels that followed him. So when they decided to follow satan, they fell and were cast out with him.

There is no difference between “fall” and being “cast out,” as the result is the same with God.
It was not of his (Lucifer's) will to be cast out. The angels in Jude 6 left of their own volition and they didn't just leave heaven like they were going on holiday, they made a permanent change.

The word translated "habitation" is the same word used in 2Cor.5:2 when speaking of us changing our habitation from flesh to spirit. The Jude angels did the reverse.

Jude v.6
And the angels who 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.

2Cor.5:2
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
 
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Right, the angels left their first estate or domain and became men. Read Jude 1:6.

Also, we see angels appear as men before Abraham. We know two of them were angels that went to Sodom and Gomorrah to retrieve Lot and his family.
Angels appearing as men and angels becoming men are two different things. I don't see in Scripture where angels ever became men. Even for Jude 1:6; to say they became men would be a stretch!
They were angels. Before man was created? Job 38: 4-7 tells us that the sons of God were present
to watch God forming the planet earth.

How could that be speaking of man who was created on the sixth day?
This is true.

Yet, how can an entity that does not posses a material body and is not "made after the kind" of humanity, form a hybrid being with humans when God has not given demons the ability to produce life, because they have not control over "the breath of life". God is the sole Entity that grants life!

I believe demonic forces were involved in this debacle; but they used human males and females to achieve their ends. Because they "do not marry, or are given in marriage". They aren't capable of that, because they are not carbon based entities. Which begs the question as to whether or not they are actually "life forms". Yes they are certainly sentient entities; but are they "life forms"?

That's the major issue I see in this.
 
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It was not of his (Lucifer's) will to be cast out. The angels in Jude 6 left of their own volition and they didn't just leave heaven like they were going on holiday, they made a permanent change.

The word translated "habitation" is the same word used in 2Cor.5:2 when speaking of us changing our habitation from flesh to spirit. The Jude angels did the reverse.

Jude v.6
And the angels who 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.

2Cor.5:2
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
Interesting. I'll have to research that.
 
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Interesting. I'll have to research that.
Please do. I heard it from a scholar teaching from the Greek a very long time ago. Not my regular pastor so not sure how accurate he may have been but my own studies have yet to dismiss. it. :)
 
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The word translated "habitation" is the same word used in 2Cor.5:2 when speaking of us changing our habitation from flesh to spirit. The Jude angels did the reverse.
Of a quick look, one of the translations also means "prison". In considering 2 Corinthians 2:5 "who shall deliver me from this body of death."

Not sure 2 Corinthians 5:2 is a "reversal" of Jude 6? Because to be "clothed with the house from heaven" would be to be raised incorruptible into the new heavens and new earth. That's not going from material body to "spirit" / non material existence. That's going from one form of material body to another form of material body.

Angels don't have material bodies; though they can dawn solid form and appear as humans.

Yet, in order to be human, one has to be of the seed of Adam. Thus I don't see any justification for the idea that angels can become humans.

So what does it mean that they left their own habitation? (I don't know.) but assuming it has something to do with why they were created in the first place. It seems angels were created on the first day and existed before life was created on earth. So for whatever that "habitation" was and how they left it? I don't know. Doesn't seem to me though that they'd become (or even could become) human. That doesn't make sense.

A subject that would require more research none the less!
 
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Some do and some don’t. That’s why gifts are given to the church, for edification.

Those with genuine gifts functioning are not the ones most listened to.....

"For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.
Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number
of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."



2 Timothy 4:3
 
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Please do. I heard it from a scholar teaching from the Greek a very long time ago. Not my regular pastor so not sure how accurate he may have been but my own studies have yet to dismiss. it. :)

Its a possible answer.

Another is that God's angels were given domains to watch over to observe mankind on earth. To do so they were stationed under the authority of God. They left their position of authority after seeing these beautiful women.

Satan and his angels could not have done it in Genesis 6 because fallen angels must ask the Lord permission before doing anything like that.
Even those demons that were to be cast out of Legion had to beg the Lord before entering into the herd of pigs. Not to mention, Satan had to ask the Lord permission to sift Peter like wheat.

“Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon,
that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” Luke 22:31-32​
grace and peace ..........................
 
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Of a quick look, one of the translations also means "prison". In considering 2 Corinthians 2:5 "who shall deliver me from this body of death."

Not sure 2 Corinthians 5:2 is a "reversal" of Jude 6? Because to be "clothed with the house from heaven" would be to be raised incorruptible into the new heavens and new earth. That's not going from material body to "spirit" / non material existence. That's going from one form of material body to another form of material body.

Angels don't have material bodies; though they can dawn solid form and appear as humans.

Yet, in order to be human, one has to be of the seed of Adam. Thus I don't see any justification for the idea that angels can become humans.

So what does it mean that they left their own habitation? (I don't know.) but assuming it has something to do with why they were created in the first place. It seems angels were created on the first day and existed before life was created on earth. So for whatever that "habitation" was and how they left it? I don't know. Doesn't seem to me though that they'd become (or even could become) human. That doesn't make sense.

A subject that would require more research none the less!
I'm not suggesting they became human as we are created human, but rather they changed the nature of their body just as our bodies will be changed in the resurrection. Just because angels are considered immaterial, I'm not sure we can say with absolute confidence they don't have bodies. There are those who have reported seeing angels yet they did not have a physical body but rather what might be described as a body of light. I think the very fact they produced Nephilim suggests they were not human as we understand being human yet, human enough to mate with human woman.

Even if we do not understand the precise nature of the change, I believe there is enough evidence to suggest it was a substantial change just as we will undergo a substantial change when we receive our resurrection bodies. Therefore, this allows for the potential of an angel/human hybrid which, stands against the general argument from the "sons of God must be men as angels can't breed with women" camp. :)
 
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I'm not suggesting they became human as we are created human, but rather they changed the nature of their body just as our bodies will be changed in the resurrection. Just because angels are considered immaterial, I'm not sure we can say with absolute confidence they don't have bodies. There are those who have reported seeing angels yet they did not have a physical body but rather what might be described as a body of light. I think the very fact they produced Nephilim suggests they were not human as we understand being human yet, human enough to mate with human woman.

Even if we do not understand the precise nature of the change, I believe there is enough evidence to suggest it was a substantial change just as we will undergo a substantial change when we receive our resurrection bodies. Therefore, this allows for the potential of an angel/human hybrid which, stands against the general argument from the "sons of God must be men as angels can't breed with women" camp. :)
I agree that angels probably do have some form of "body". It's not a flesh and blood one though; (they aren't "carbon based" - which everything else that's considered "alive" is). On top of this, we have verses in the Bible that say they don't reproduce. (They don't reproduce because they don't "die"; though they are punishable as in being cast into the Lake of Fire.) Jesus makes a statement about marriage being for the children of this world because of the reign of death. Luke 20:28-36

Then we have passages like "You're of your father the devil" and "Judas was a devil." Though these people were human beings born of human parents; their spiritual father was Satan. Note they were all religious clerics too. There's an interesting story about "men of renown" in Numbers 16. (It describes the "men of renown" as clerics.

Now I do believe demonic forces were involved in this "Nephilim incident" but I don't believe the women in those passages bore them angelic human hybrid children. Not in the material sense at least. The material bodies of those "men of renown" came from human mothers and fathers; but they were infested with demonic false religion that made them "of their father the devil". And the intend of the demons in doing this was probably to try and corrupt the seed of Eve to prevent the incarnation. Well they can't actually do that because they have no means of materially reproducing. The "breath of life" that makes men "living souls" comes only from God. Satan has no domaine in that. (He can't create life.) So I don't see it as what this angelic / human cooperation brought forth was material children; but a spiritually wicked hybrid religion.

As for the "left their first estate"?

I was thinking about this. Lucifer was stated to be the "covering cherub". The language in Ezekiel 28 seems to indicate that he was the "roof" of one domaine and the "floor" of another.

Now I have this theory on the origin of evil. Part of my theory involves that I think "the face of the deep" in Genesis is the realm under this material realm that will become the Lake of Fire on the other side of eternity. The "face of the deep" is were the darkness was originally held and part of my theory is that Lucifer was the "covering cherub" who was to be the one responsible to keep the "darkness" from invading the material realm.

So I wonder if that fact that he appears in the garden means that "leaving his first estate" is that he left the domaine he was assigned as the "covering cherub" of. And thus he was "peeled off" as the "lid" and cast into the pit? Which was likely by the hand of the Holy Spirit who "moved upon the face of the waters". What that passage actually means is that the entrance of the Holy Spirit into the material created domain; brought about the existence of water.

So maybe that's what that means? (It makes sense.)

Again, something that would require some more digging.
 
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I'm not suggesting they became human as we are created human, but rather they changed the nature of their body just as our bodies will be changed in the resurrection. Just because angels are considered immaterial,

Angels can be immaterial and material. It all depends on what is needed.

Its like Star Trek when people got beamed around to different planets who would materialize after reaching their destination.
Sounds far fetched to the closed minded. But we are dealing with God here.

And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled
about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea." Acts 8:38-40​

And, while we are on this subject?

After the resurrection... Jesus suddenly materialized inside the room where all the disciples were hiding. He went right through the walls.

And, remember how Peter asked the Lord and was made able to walk on water?

Folks! We are in for something BIG!

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Patience now, my friend. Remember, patience is one of the fruits of the Spirit.

Angels appearing as men and angels becoming men are two different things. I don't see in Scripture where angels ever became men.
Three visitors came to see Abraham. Two of them were angels and the other was a Pre-Incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ.
Jesus continued to talk with Abraham about the fate of Sodom, while the two angels went to Sodom to retrieve Lot and his family.

When Jesus and the two angels first encountered Abraham, he gave them food, and they ate the food. In my understanding, this tells me that angels can interact with our physical universe like us humans. If they can eat human food, what else can they do, like humans?
It appears Genesis 6 that they can do more than just eat human food.

Even for Jude 1:6; to say they became men would be a stretch!
Yes, my apologies. I considered this briefly yesterday after watching a video on two Christians talking about Jude 1:6. However, after thinking about it more this morning, I abandoned this idea that fallen angels became human because it would undermine the uniqueness of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. I believe now that these sons of God left their first estate (i.e., these were once good angels who left their first estate of Heaven) in order to marry and impregnate fleshy human females, whereby they created giant half angelic / human hybrids (Note: These angels that sinned are not related to the devil and his other minions who rebelled previously; They are a new group of angels who sinned by leaving Heaven to marry these human women so as to be intimate with them). Again, Genesis 6 tells us that these were angels because it says they were “sons of God” and the result was giants (something unusual). In fact, we later see these hybrids have six fingers and six toes in other parts of Scripture. Again, this shows a corruption in the DNA. This is the most logical conclusion if one looks at the Scriptures like a detective, rather than us inserting our own preferences in the text because it may freak us out, or we cannot understand how one verse can be reconciled with others.

I believe demonic forces were involved in this debacle; but they used human males and females to achieve their ends. Because they "do not marry, or are given in marriage". They aren't capable of that, because they are not carbon based entities. Which begs the question as to whether or not they are actually "life forms". Yes they are certainly sentient entities; but are they "life forms"?
I see angels as existing in a different plain of dimension than ours and they have a different substance as a result (i.e, a spiritual realm substance). They can interact with our environment or dimension because they can possess people and or protect them. We see them eat food, and influence men to do sinful things that exists within their own dark desires. Lot and his family were literally pulled by the hand out of Sodom by angels.

Anyways, because angels can eat solid food, and they can throw people around, and affect people physically, it is not outside the realm of possibility that they could mate with human females. Yes, I know of the verse that says angels are not given in marriage, but this is in reference to good angels who obey God and not fallen angels who disobey him. We also cannot use the animals produce after their kinds verse in situations like this because that would be in application to the physical world. We do not know fully how angels can interact with the physical world. Apparently they can break the rules, and impregnate human females because that is what Genesis 6 basically says. Sons of God is defined as angels in the book of Job three times, and they are not defined clearly as another group in the Old Testament. It would not make sense that they are godly believers because the result of their union is something unnatural in that they became giants (Whereby they are wiped out by God’s people after the flood). So when some Christians propose that the ”sons of God” are godly men, it just does not add up or work logically when we look at the whole counsel of God’s Word.

Scripture refers to our God as the “Spirit of the living God” (2 Corinthians 3:3). So while God is a spirit being (with Jesus having a physical body - being the second person of the Trinity), we must conclude that the phrase, Living God is from the Old Testament (1 Samuel 17:26). So before the Incarnation, God who was exclusively a spirit being was called the “the living God.” So yes. Spirit beings are living or alive. All spirit beings may not be alive in the same way that a human is alive, but they are living none-the-less.
 
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Genesis 6:1-4

1 “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,​
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.​
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.​
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”​

My Commentary on the text below:

Genesis 6:1-4 (Commentary):

1 “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them​
[talking about humans only at this point],​
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose [after the sons of God or angels had seen humans having sex in verse 1, they noticed that the women were beautiful looking, and so they also took to themselves wives and had intimate relations with them thereby breaking the rule of good angels that they are not to be given into marriage].​
3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years [This rule appears to be mentioned because sin was becoming more rampant and widespread - especially in light of the fact that man’s very DNA was being corrupted by sinful angels].​
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. [This verse explains the result of the unholy union between the angels and human females and the result was demon / human hybrids that appeared as giants and men who were famous, and men who were of old in the sense that they lived a long time]”​

Side Note:

The words in blue above in brackets is my commentary to the text.
 
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