Yes, I have read some ancient texts.. but people don't want to believe these.. they continue to believe, as you do, that they can search for different translations until they find one that says the words they want to hear and state "sons of the mighty" or some other term that diminishes the fact that the term used was meant as angel. Not some special human.Nothing sudden about it. Adam and Eve did not live to 80 years, they were not normal compared to us in any way, with height either.
Why don't you read the ancient Jewish writings, why don't you read the original Hebrew transliteration, why do you not even think about the great God that created the first 2 perfectly formed people with a brain and body that far surpasses ours, what is so overwhelmingly intimidating about this??? Why do you prefer to think that Satan had to have been involved in any of this except to plot our spiritual downfall. There is nothing about bloodlines in any of the bible. Jesus never even hinted at any such thing, and He should know--He was there.
"VI. And Noach was a son of five hundred years, and Noach begat Shem, Cham, and Japheth. And it was when the sons of men had begun to multiply upon the earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of the mighty[32] saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful, and took to them wives of all whom they pleased.[33] And the Lord said, This evil generation shall not stand before me for ever, because they are flesh, and their works are evil. A term (or length) will I give them, an hundred and twenty years, if they may be converted. Giants were in the earth in those days; and also when, after that the sons of the mighty had gone in unto the daughters of men, there were born from them giants who from of old were men of name."
Targum of Onkelos
Look, we are not going to change each others mind. If you think that they said a redundant sentence such as "daughters of men" which is totally unnecessary if all women are sons of men, then so be it.
If you think "sons of God" refers to some other humans... so be it.
In my mind.. you do not get giants, of the scale talked about in the Bible and the B of E and The Book of Jasher and other extrabiblical texts.... by normal humans mating... No matter how different Adam and Eve were... which, by the way, I fully understand that the world was a totally different place back then, as were the people. But, the giants.... the giants were something beyond human genetics.
So, again, I will agree to disagree. Unless you can come up with some new information that has not been presented before.
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