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Who are the Nephilim (Genesis 6) ?

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I tried to answer it. Keep asking if you wish.
"I find it amusing that some claim to know the limitations of celestial bodies without benefits of scientific examination of said celestial bodies." was rather terse imo. I made no such claim. I just asked a question.
 
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"I find it amusing that some claim to know the limitations of celestial bodies without benefits of scientific examination of said celestial bodies." was rather terse imo. I made no such claim. I just asked a question.
I didn’t say you did but many have and still do.
 
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Do you have an answer to that question?
 
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When did that start? After Joshua's time?

Before the flood I think ?????

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And the angels which 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. Jude 1:6
 
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Yes some cultures altered skulls but I doubt those same cultures artificially created giants.
 
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According to scripture they were all killed off during the flood. So if they survived that, why couldn't they have survived Deuteronomy 2? And what's to stop angels from mating with women any time between Noah's time and now?
According to Genesis, it is said they were there before and after the flood. Most people over look the "and afterward" part.

What's to stop mating now? Genetic regression.
 
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A movie?
 
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According to Genesis, it is said they were there before and after the flood. Most people over look the "and afterward" part.

What's to stop mating now? Genetic regression.
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It does not say after the flood. You are reading that into the verse.
There were nephilim on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
The verse is saying nephilim were on the earth after the sons of God saw and married daughters of men and bore children to them (the sons of God). that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
 
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I actually saw that once. I think they probably got inspiration from the Book of Enoch and perhaps Jewish folklore.
 
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I don't think so, you think so. Neither of us are God, so whatever.
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It is fairly simple where in the verse does the verse say the nephilim were on the earth after the flood.

There were nephilim on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
 
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