You are inventing ideas not supported by the Scriptures and contrary to the Scriptures as an argument against teaching from the Scriptures?
You have to read the Bible. The flood stopped them from continuing on. None of them joined Noah and his family in the ark. In fact, they were the main reason for the flood.
Exactly...none of them were in the Ark, so how did they continue to procreate AFTER the flood and produce Giants in Numbers 13:33? (the argument that "there were no giants and that the spies who said this were lying" is not supported by the facts found in Davids's encounter with Goliath of Gath!)
In the Hebrew Bible the term "sons of God" always refers to angelic beings. They appear in five chapters. In Deuteronomy 32:7-8 seventy of them are assigned authority over the nations of men after God dispersed them at Babel. In Job 1 and 2 they appear in a pair of classic Divine Council scenes, and later in Job God describes how each one of them shouted for joy as God laid the foundation of the earth.
Deuteronomy makes no mention of angelic beings in this text...i do not think that is what it is even talking about. It is talking about elders of men set over them after they are dispersed at Babel (exactly how the text reads). Moses did exactly the same thing with the children of Israel!
I will grant you Job 38... that one does require some more study. I am certain that the sollution to this dilemma is that these are those who are faithful to the most high God. More than likely these are people just like us on other worlds who along with the angels in heaven (morning stars) are celebrating the creation of the earth. I think that is a perfectly reasonable interpretation. It would be gross ignorance to deny there are people God has created on other worlds who have never partaken of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil!
Early Jewish and Christian writers said that God placed them in bonds under the earth as punishment for their sins in Genesis 6. And that they're still down there.
Interestingly, to me, is that when Peter describes the same events in 2 Peter 2:4, he says those angels were condemned to "Tartarus". This is a Greek word which describes the underground prison where the Greeks say that the Titans were imprisoned. Is he linking the Greek Titans with the sons of God? Fascinating stuff.
2 Peter chapter 2 is about false prophets...human prophets.
Peter introduces phrases like
-destructive heresis,
-denying the master who brought them (clearly referring to those who crucified Jesus)
-bringing swift destruction on themselves
-many will follow in their depravity (this is clearly talking about idolatry...worshipping other gods)
-because of them (idolators) the way of truth will be defamed
-the long standing verdict against themremain in force(the wages of sin is death - 10 commandments)
-their destruction does not sleep
then in verse 4 Peter is talking about the angels that fell from heaven with Lucifer when he first fought against God in heaven and was cast down to the earth...and his angels with him.
The problem with the Sons of God explanation is, when one ignores Revelation 12...
7Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8But the dragon was not strong enough, and no longer was any place found in heaven for him and his angels. 9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
...which even in biblehub cross-references with Genesis 3:1 & Luke 10:18 & Matthew 25:41,
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'"
Luke 10:18 So He told them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Mat 25:41 Then He will say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
...one loses access to a very important understanding here in Genesis 6 and Job 1!
Actually Noah's family was the only family that hadn't mixed. He was perfect in pedigree.
Exactly, so how then did any Nephilim, who were an abomination, survive the flood to father the likes of Goliah of Gath (whom many writers claim is descended from the same lineage as those spoken of in Numbers 13:33?). God brought the flood upon the earth to rid it of abomination, so clearly what is being referred to is not the stature of mankind specifically, but mankinds sins and sinful habits. This does not, in my view and considering many other biblical passages where Sons of God/Sons of the Living God/Children of God etc, have anything to do with evil angels apparently developing an evolutionary ability to suddenly procreate!
May I also add, if angels can procreate, when then was there a need for God to create us? Angels could have done it themselves...at the very least without his permissionon by becoming incarnate, having sex parties, and produce offspring of their own! (i should think that is a very simple logical conclusion any atheist would make on this very topic)
