[youngidiot]

Angels are sexless?

[Ciexyz]

Food for thought.

[Rashputin]

For those who may have missed them, here are links to earlier posts in this series :

Link to part I

Link to part II

Interesting reading, IMHO.

[count-your-change]

Clearly the angels that appeared to Abraham, Lot and Jacob had the ability to form material bodies that could eat and be grasped. It would seem those rebellious angels also had that ability until they misused it and were imprisoned as it were in a debased state.

Perhaps their off spring, the “fellers of men” are the basis of tales of the demigods of legend.

[Marty]

Genesis speaks of the ‘sons of God’ and John 3:16 speaks specifically of Jesus as God’s ‘only begotten Son’. It is possible that the ‘sons’ (note the lower case and upper case usage) are still sons, but simply not begotten, and by that, not human.

Another curious usage is that God is also called the Lord God and after reading a lot of other curious terms, I have to wonder if that means that He is the chief God. In Genesis 1:26, “God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.....”. I find myself wondering if that sentence references Him musing with what is called the Royal ‘We’ or if he is talking with His Family—the sons of God. As I do not read the Bible in the original translation, I can’t be sure.

As far as to whether or not the ‘sons of God’ are angels or demons, there is nothing to lead me to believe that they are anything but what they are called, the ‘sons of God.’

The Bible does not say that God forbade His sons to have intercourse with women; indeed, Genesis 6:1-4 indicates that it must have been a common practice as “There were giants 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.” Note the plural. It also does not state that those giants or men of renown were evil, only that ‘the wickedness of man was great in the earth’.

It would also seem hypocritical if God, Himself, begat a Son, if He’d been against the ‘sons of God’ doing the same earlier. There must be more to the story.

[Down South P.E.]

I’ll stick with Dr. John Whitcomb’s analysis on the subject which I believe is more in line with the totality of all scriptures. Demonically possessed men. See Genesis 1 to 11 studies 6 and 7 below.

http://www.voicesforchrist.org/welcome/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=John+Whitcomb

[yldstrk]

ok so do the descendants of these demonic offspring exist among us today?

[Just mythoughts]

No subject on angels would be complete (and this treatise is far from complete), without dealing with the passage in Gen. 6, one of the most controversial, confusing, and convoluted Bible passages. The incident happened just before the global Flood, and whatever position one may take as to the identity of the culprits, their sin was a partial reason (along with the violence) for the world disaster (Gen. 6:5; 11).

There is NOTHING controversial, confusing or convoluted about what Moses is told to write.

The Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of God. Eve was seduced by the devil and the Adam outright disobeyed the commandment of God. Hence they had removed from them the Tree of LIFE and were required to live off the labor of their own hands. Then by the time Noah is born, this earth is polluted by the fallen angels that the only family NOT affected is Noah and his family.... hence the flood. The flood was because the blood line to Christ had been polluted.

[MHGinTN]

Could it be that a 'species' called Angel has many races within it? When someone in the Bible refers to 'the angel of that person', they are not referring to 'sons of God', they are referring to the spiritual nature of the person.

BTW, there really are skeletons of giants being found. Their heights vary from ~ three meters to five meters, so far.