the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them."
The Sons of God are the good boys from that time who attended Sunday school, wore nice clean clothes, and never got in trouble, while the daughters of men are bad girls—probably descendents of Cain—who liked to drink, cuss, and wear short skirts.
The Sons of God are the sons of kings and pharaohs. They are royal princes. The daughters of men are the daughters of common folk gathered up by the royal princes to form their harems.
The Sons of God are angelic creatures. The daughters of men are the daughters of men.
Genesis 1-11 covers 2,000 years of the history of man. The rest of Genesis (chapters 12-50) plus 38 additional Old Testament books cover only 1,600 years. So, whatever is happening in Genesis 6:1-4 is taking up some very valuable space. Are good boys marrying naughty girls worth recording? Maybe, but I doubt it. If the Hebrew phrase "sons of God" is translated here the way it is in other Old Testament verses, it means "angels." And "daughters of men" just might mean"daughters of men." So this strange mixing of angelic and human beings would cause some mighty bizarre offspring— offspring much like the Nephilim—superhuman in strength and stature. This would explain the references to incredible giants found in Genesis through Deuteronomy, and again in I Samuel. (Goliath wasn't the only giant in his family, he had four giant brothers.) Why is the idea of the Nephilim often rejected today? Because we live in a secular, materialistic culture. Our society has a hard enough time believing in God, let alone the existence of demons and evil creatures we cannot see. We have been born into a spiritual war against a band of rebel angels whose destiny is the Lake of Fire. But with our vision limited to our physical universe, this concept often seems absurd. It's probably safe to say the spiritual realm takes this whole thing a lot more seriously than we do.
The flood wasn't just an enormous rainstorm. What happened during the flood could never be duplicated because the pressurized water under the continental plates and above the atmosphere was released once and for all. When the "great deep burst forth" the continental plates cracked and water erupted. At the same time, (maybe as a result of atmospheric changes created by the blasts of water), the canopy of water above the atmosphere broke, causing the "floodgates of the heavens to open." The fallout of this cataclysmic event lasted forty days and forty nights. All life on earth perished while the ark maintained buoyancy—an enormous barge riding on top of the water.
Augustine, who had moved from Carthage to Rome to Milan with a concubine he had kept since he was a teenager and their son, to study philosophy, rhetoric and religions such as Manichaeism. By 391, four years after his conversion, Augustine was ordained a priest and in four more years at the age of 41 Augustine became the bishop of the city of Hippo in North Africa. Augustine's writings would set Christian theology for the next 1,000 years and beyond even to our day.
"one who proclaims good news."
Am I hearing sound teaching from God's Word?
Do I forsake the truth from God's Word that I do know?