The killing thread made me think of this. Is it possible that Nephilim still exist today? Is it possible that fallen angels still produce offspring with the daughters of man? And if they did it once, then what stops them now?
Is it possible that Nephilim still exist today?
First, I don't think the Nephilim were fallen angels. Gen 6 only demands that the Nephilim were on the earth when that stuff happened. It appears that the Nephilim are distinguished from the sons of God:
6:1 When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 6:2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose. 6:3 So the Lord said, My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years. 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.
Nephilim are only mentioned once more:
Num 13:33 We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.
It's My understanding that the offspring would have died in the flood.
God Bless!
Some people believe that's what the whole UFO and alien abductions phenomena are. The theory is that so-called aliens are fallen angels and they abduct people and do "reproductive experiments" on them to produce a hybrid race, or Nephilim.
I don't know if it's true, but I think it's plausible.
Elijah - could you expound on this a little more - I would like to learn more.
First, I don't think the Nephilim were fallen angels. Gen 6 only demands that the Nephilim were on the earth when that stuff happened. It appears that the Nephilim are distinguished from the sons of God:
6:1 When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 6:2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose. 6:3 So the Lord said, My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years. 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.
Nephilim are only mentioned once more:
Num 13:33 We even saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we seemed liked grasshoppers both to ourselves and to them.
Here is another thought:
What are they, are they “fallen angels”?
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