The Nephillim

[2Timothy2]

I don't believe that angels mated with humans. Angels are spirits, thus no corporeal bodies with which to mate. The times they took human forms in the Bible was in conjunction with a mission from God, never on their own. And the edict in Gen 1 about "producing after it's own kind" seems to me to militate against this as well. Those are only two reasons.

Nephilim carries the idea of one who fells trees, or a tyrant, or something to that effect. Rather than giants, so much, even though they most likely were in Gen 6, I think they were major-league warriors, tyrants, and vicious men. I'm going from a tired memory here, so be gentle.

Weren't the nephilam destroyed by the flood? How could it be that Goliath was of a species that was eradicated by the flood?

Those around before the flood were, but there were others later.

Numbers 13:33And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Here nephilim is again translated 'giants' by the KJV. This is post-flood. Goliath is also mentioned, if I remember right, in some sort of conjunction with the sons of Anak. I'll have to check that.

edit: I did a quick search and couldn't find any mention of Goliath and the sons of Anak. Don't know what I was thinking there. heh